ZAMBOANGA: More than 120 Filipinos have been deported from Malaysia and arrived by boat in the southern Philippine province of Tawi-Tawi, officials said Wednesday.

Officials said the Filipinos who were mostly illegal migrants and workers, had been arrested in Sabah for violating immigration laws. The deportees would have to be processed first by representatives from various government agencies before they would be allowed to return to their places of origin.

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