KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN police say nearly 200 illegal
immigrants from Vietnam and Myanmar have staged a riot in a botched
attempt to break out of a detention center while awaiting
deportation.
Shukri Dahlan, the police chief of northern Terengganu state,
told Malaysia's national news agency Bernama that eight Vietnamese
detainees were injured in the incident late on Saturday.
Another state police official says the detainees tried to break
through the center's entrance and threatened to set the facility on
fire, but riot police forced them back inside. He did not have
other details and spoke on condition of anonymity on Sunday because
he was not authorised to make public statements.
-- AP