Detainees who escaped were refugees, held there for two years

Published: Apr 21, 2022 5:04 AM | Updated: Jun 7, 2022 8:18 AM

All 528 detainees who fled the Sungai Bakap immigration detention centre yesterday had been held there since 2020.

Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin said they were all refugees of Rohingya ethnicity.

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