Passport Department raids on sites housing illegal immigrants in Al-Faisaliya District here early Thursday morning led to the arrest of 115 persons of Yemeni, Ethiopian and Filipino nationalities. The raiding parties acting on information from the public entered an apartment block shortly after midnight Wednesday and at the first residence detained a group of Yemenis. In an apartment opposite a number of Ethiopians were arrested. The operations, which continued past dawn, also uncovered flats housing runaway housemaids working for hourly rates and in contravention of their work permits. Some of whom later confessed to theft. Also arrested were beggars and ambulant street sellers.
