The police are looking for an unknown number of illegal immigrants who escaped from a detention centre in Safi on Sunday night. Nine of them were quickly rounded up in the vicinity but some managed to get away. The search is being conducted by the Detention Services and the Armed Forces of Malta.

Sign up to our free newsletters

Get the best updates straight to your inbox:
Please select at least one mailing list.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By subscribing, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing.