KUALA LUMPUR: An undocumented migrant from Myanmar has died in a highway accident whereas fleeing an immigration detention centre with over 100 others in Malaysia late Thursday, officers mentioned.
The incident was the second reported breakout from a Malaysian detention centre in as a few years. In April 2022, 582 ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar escaped an immigration depot in northern Kedah state. Six of these migrants had been killed after being hit by autos on a freeway.
A complete of 131 migrants escaped from the Bidor immigration detention depot in Malaysia’s western Perak state on Thursday evening, Immigration Division director-general Ruslin Jusoh mentioned in a press release on Friday.
One of many migrants died following a highway accident, he mentioned, including that search operations had been ongoing for the remaining escapees.
The migrants, who escaped from the lads’s block of the depot, included 115 ethnic Rohingya refugees and 16 Myanmar nationals of different ethnicities, state information company Bernama reported, citing a press release from Perak police. Bernama reported the person who died had been struck by a automobile on a freeway.
Malaysia, which doesn’t recognise refugee standing, has lengthy been a favoured vacation spot for ethnic Rohingya fleeing persecution in Myanmar or refugee camps in Bangladesh.
However lately, Malaysia has turned away boats carrying Rohingya refugees and rounded up 1000’s in crowded detention centres as a part of a crackdown on undocumented migrants.
The incident was the second reported breakout from a Malaysian detention centre in as a few years. In April 2022, 582 ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar escaped an immigration depot in northern Kedah state. Six of these migrants had been killed after being hit by autos on a freeway.
A complete of 131 migrants escaped from the Bidor immigration detention depot in Malaysia’s western Perak state on Thursday evening, Immigration Division director-general Ruslin Jusoh mentioned in a press release on Friday.
One of many migrants died following a highway accident, he mentioned, including that search operations had been ongoing for the remaining escapees.
The migrants, who escaped from the lads’s block of the depot, included 115 ethnic Rohingya refugees and 16 Myanmar nationals of different ethnicities, state information company Bernama reported, citing a press release from Perak police. Bernama reported the person who died had been struck by a automobile on a freeway.
Malaysia, which doesn’t recognise refugee standing, has lengthy been a favoured vacation spot for ethnic Rohingya fleeing persecution in Myanmar or refugee camps in Bangladesh.
However lately, Malaysia has turned away boats carrying Rohingya refugees and rounded up 1000’s in crowded detention centres as a part of a crackdown on undocumented migrants.
