Dozens of illegal immigrants escape Malaysian camp

More than 100 illegal immigrants have fled a detention camp in Malaysia after burning down an accommodation block, a senior security official said yesterday.
Rusli Mokhtar, deputy commandant of the Lenggeng immigration depot, just south of Kuala Lumpur, said the break-out happened late Monday.
Rusli said 19 of them had been recaptured and police have mounted an operation to round up the others.