KL rounds up 600 illegal immigrants

KL rounds up 600 illegal immigrants

KUALA LUMPUR (AP): Malaysian police intensified a crackdown on
illegal immigrants, rounding up more than 600 people on an island
near the site of an April 23 kidnapping, a newspaper report said
on Friday.

The men, women and children from the Philippines and
Indonesia, were driven out in a predawn swoop on Bum Bum Island,
adjacent to Sipadan Island in northeastern Borneo, which is being
disputed between Malaysia and Indonesia.

Those detained were taken to a community center in Semporna
town in Sabah state, an hour away by boat.

Local police chief Sulaiman Junaid told the paper that 150
police personnel armed with assault rifles had conducted a door-
to-door search for people living in makeshift houses along the
island's coastline.