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Po­lice de­tained 28 un­doc­u­ment­ed South Amer­i­can mi­grants dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing op­er­a­tion at a sports bar in St Ann’s Vil­lage, Ma­yaro.

The women, all Span­ish-speak­ing na­tion­als of Venezuela, were dis­cov­ered be­tween 1:50 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. to­day, Fri­day 6 June, dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Na­tion­al Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit (NSOU).

They were tak­en to the Ma­yaro Po­lice Sta­tion, along with the bar own­er, who is as­sist­ing with on­go­ing en­quiries.