TWO Chinese transit passengers were barred from boarding their flight bound for the United Kingdom allegedly because of spurious travel documents, immigration authorities said on Monday.

Marc Red Mariñas, Immigration port operations division chief, said that Lin Chen Hui, 29; and Chen Huajuan, 27, arrived earlier in Manila as transit passengers from Dubai and “were already at the boarding gate when the BI officers were alerted by airline personnel on their attempted departure.”

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