KUALA LUMPUR: Kuala Lumpur police will monitor the Selayang wholesale market following claims that a few of the Rohingya detainees who escaped from the Sungai Bakap Immigration depot on April 20 may probably be hiding within the space.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Azmi Abu Kassim mentioned police are prepared to help the Immigration Department in monitoring down the fugitives.
“We will proceed to hunt them… whether or not on the Selayang wholesale market or elsewhere,” he instructed reporters after launching the Kuala Lumpur police contingent’s Ops Selamat 18/2022 visitors operations right here.
He was commenting on the assertion by Immigration director-general Datuk Seri Khairul Dzaimee Daud, who after a go to to the market right here at the moment, mentioned that a few of the Rohingya escapees could possibly be hiding in Selayang.
In the April 20 incident, 528 detainees rioted earlier than escaping from the depot.
Six of them had been killed after being hit by automobiles whereas trying to sprint throughout the North-South Expressway at KM168. To date, 61 of them are on the run. – Bernama
