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60 Nigerians arrested in Cambodia for illegal stay

Xinhua, May 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

Cambodian immigration police arrested 60 Nigerians during a raid on a rented villa in Phnom Penh's Chamkarmon district on Wednesday, a senior police official said.

"They had illegally entered Cambodia for living and working," Major General Uk Heisela, chief of the General Department of Immigration (GDI)'s investigation and procedure department, told Xinhua, adding that none of them has a passport.

"They will be deported to their birth country within a week," he said.

According to the GDI, the Southeast Asian country expelled 3,509 illegal immigrants in 2016, most of them Vietnamese nationals.

Under the country's immigration law, any alien living in Cambodia without valid documents such as passports, visas, or work permits are subject to deportation. Endit