Muscat: The Royal Oman Police (ROP) say they have deported 539 infiltrators of various Asian nationalities Monday by boat from the Sultan Qaboos Port in Muscat.
An ROP press release said the police have intensified campaign against the illegal residents and those deported Monday were caught during such raids. "We have been deporting thousands of infiltrators every year," a spokesperson for the ROP said.
He urged citizens and residents to cooperate with the police and avoid giving shelter to illegal residents.
A large number of infiltrators come by boat from Pakistan via Bandar Abbas in Iran and human traffickers drop these job-seeking poor people along the long coast line of Oman.
The police have carried out awareness campaign along the Batinah coast and trained people to spot these infiltrators and report to the police.