Search for escapees in surroundings of immigration depot in Bidor after riot

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Police are intensifying efforts to track down 130 illegal immigrants who escaped from the Temporary Immigration Depot in Bidor on Thursday night, with the search focused on areas within a certain radius of the detention centre.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/wDX09  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Authorities are intensifying efforts to track down some 130 illegal immigrants who escaped

00:08 from the temporary immigration depot in Bidor on Thursday night.

00:12 The incident happened at 9.50pm, with 115 of the detainees being Rohingya and 16 others

00:19 being Myanmar nationals.

00:22 Stringent checks and roadblocks have been mounted in the surrounding areas of Thapa

00:26 and nearby Kampar and Mualim districts.

00:29 Authorities believe that the detainees had rioted and destroyed the barbed wire fencing

00:33 before escaping from the detention center.

00:36 "One man, a Rohingya detainee, who escaped from the temporary immigration depot in Bidor,

00:43 was involved in the roadblocks and the roadblocks in the north-southern part of the 335th KM

00:53 of the highway.

00:55 The search for all the detainees has been carried out and the investigation is still

01:01 ongoing."

01:02 Police urge the public to report to the nearest police station if they have any information

01:07 on the escapees.

01:09 The immigrants are aged between 17 and 35 years old.

01:12 The U.S. Department of Justice has not yet released a statement on the detainees.

01:13 The U.S. Department of Justice has not yet released a statement on the detainees.

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