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220 BD labourers held in Abu Dhabi

May 16, 2011 00:00:00


A police raid on a workers' accommodation site in Abu Dhabi, has netted 220 Bangladeshi labourers, who had fake papers. The police said they had a tip-off about some 300 workers who were living in unhygienic conditions in the Musaffah Industrial Area. Police in the recent raid also caught the Bangladeshi ringleader, Maj Gen Nasser Bin Al Awadi Al Menhali, undersecretary of the interior ministry, said, according to Gulf News. The report, however, did not mention when the drive was carried out. -bdnews24.com

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