Rescued Scam Workers Break Out of Immigration Center Amid ‘Nightmare’

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Under the cover of heavy rain last night, 10 rescued scam workers fled an immigration center in Phnom Penh, as a resident of another of the capital’s facilities spoke of bug bites and paying “tips” to police and said: “One nightmare ended, another began.”

 

Amid police raids that have removed thousands of people from scam compounds across the country, Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov Covid-19 quarantine center has been turned into an immigration facility holding foreigners, including Chinese nationals as they await deportation. On Wednesday around 8 or 9 p.m., 10 people kicked through the warehouse-like facility’s wall and fled in the rain, said immigration department spokesperson Keo Vanthan.

 

“This is a quarantine center and treatment hospital, and we’re using it to detain people so it is not solid,” he said. “We’ve welded steel, but they kicked that steel bar and the steel bar loosened, and they escaped during the heavy rain.” Five of the 10 escapees had so far been recaptured, Vanthan said Several official and makeshift immigration facilities in the country were brimming with foreign nationals awaiting deportation, he said.

 

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