No escape: Illegal immigrants found hiding in bushes during a raid in Tawau.
KOTA KINABALU: Security forces have ramped up border surveillance in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (Esszone) amid unabated cases of Covid-19 in Sabah’s south-eastern Tawau and Kalabakan districts.
On Saturday, the Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) arrested 21 Indonesians who were hiding in some bushes in a coastal area along Jalan Apas in Tawau.
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