PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Another large group of illegal migrants is on its way home to China. A chartered 747 jet took off from the Prince George Airport with 90 boat people aboard Thursday afternoon.

The migrants had been locked up in Prince George for the past year. Eighty-six migrants are still being held at an old jail, that's being used as a detention centre.

This follows the last mass deportation in May, when another group of 90 people was flown back to China, after failing to win refugee status. Earlier, 23 other migrants were deported.

About 600 Chinese people arrived off the coast of B.C. in four rusty old freighters last summer. Immigration officials say more deportations are in the works.