80 Bangladeshis held in Malaysia

At least 80 Bangladeshi immigrants have been arrested at Cameron Highlands in Kuantan in Malaysia. Some local newspapers and a state news agency, quoting Cameron Highlands’ district police chief DSP Wan Mohd Zahari Wan Busu, said that police detained 80 illegal immigrants, believed to have been working at a construction site in the Cameron Highlands, during two separate raids on two houses in Tringkap and Blue Valley, Kampung Raja, on Wednesday. Busu said all the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, aged between 20 and 50, were detained during the operation, reports Malaysia’s official news agency Bernama. ‘Preliminary investigation revealed that they are believed to have overstayed in Malaysia and were also found working at the construction site without valid permit and document,’ Wan Busu told the reporters of newspapers and the new agency at a press briefing yesterday.