KOTA KINABALU: A total of 527 Filipinos, who were arrested for entering the state illegally, were deported back to their home country by the state Immigration Department.
Sabah Immigration Department director Sitti Saleha Habib Yusoff said the deportees departed from Sandakan port after they were put on a ferry MV Antonia 1 bound for the southern Philippines at 9.15pm on Wednesday (Sept 28).
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