380 illegals deported back to Philippines, 57 stranded M'sians return home


Some 280 Filipino illegals being sent back from Sabah's Sandakan port on Tuesday. -Starpic

KOTA KINABALU: Some 380 Filipino illegal immigrants were deported to their home country after they were screened for Covid-19.

National Security Council Sabah director Sharifah Sitti Saleha Habib said on Wednesday (July 29) that the deportees were sent back on a ferry via Sandakan port to Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines.

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