Updated: Migrants escape from detention centre

Verification by Detention Services staff has established that five illegal migrants escaped from Safi camp this morning, and not 20 as originally thought. One has since been recaptured. An intensive search in the area around the camp is being...

Verification by Detention Services staff has established that five illegal migrants escaped from Safi camp this morning, and not 20 as originally thought. One has since been recaptured.

An intensive search in the area around the camp is being conducted by the police and officials of the Detention Service.

The public was urged to contact freephone emergency number '112' should any suspicious persons be seen in the Safi area.

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