Stowaway crackdown in south China snares seven
16/6/2008 16:36
Police apprehended six foreign stowaways and the person who had arranged
their passage while trying to sneak into China's southern Guangdong Province
from Macau, the local authority confirmed yesterday.
The six stowaways, three
from Sri Lanka and the others from Bangladesh, were arrested along with the
"snakehead," the people trafficker, as they were trying to reach Zhuhai City,
which borders Macau, in a rowboat last week, according to Guangdong
police.
The investigation showed each stowaway paid 200 yuan (US$28) to the
snakehead who promised to help them find a job on the Chinese mainland.
The
men said they failed to find a job after they had been illegally transported to
Macau days before. They then decided to go to the Chinese mainland to try their
luck.
Xinhua
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