Published on Friday, July 28, 2000
More suspected illegal
immigrants caught
Police have caught more suspected illegal immigrants near Dalian in
northeast Liaoning province, state media reported yesterday.
Xinhua said police from Dalian's Ganjingzi Border Patrol Unit
found 75 suspected illegal immigrants hidden in a boat on Tuesday.
The report said the suspects were heading for an unidentified
destination and each had paid their snakeheads 40,000 to 60,000 yuan
(HK$37,600 to HK$56,400) for the voyage.
It was the third major arrest made by border patrol police in the
area in the past 10 days. Before the Tuesday bust, police had foiled
three smuggling attempts to sneak 144 people out of the country on
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