Nairobi Star (Nairobi)
Raphael Mwadime
31 March 2011
Police in Taita Taveta have arrested 23 Ethiopian illegal immigrants on their way to Tanzania for being in the country without valid documents.
The men in their early twenties were found hidden in a house at Kitobo area on Tuesday evening waiting to be ferried to South Africa through Tanzania. The police were acting on a tip off from local residents.
Sources revealed that the immigrants had been dropped off by a Nairobi bound bus and were waiting to be picked up by another vehicle.
Police had to use an interpretor since the immigrants do not understand English or Kiswahili.
The ambush was led by the Taveta OCPD Paul Kisang who said there were more than 30 immigrants and they were pursuing those who fled.
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