Police arrested about 50 asylum-seekers of various nationalities this morning, mainly outside the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kuala Lumpur.

Brickfields OCPD Zulhasnan Najib Baharuddin said the foreign nationals in the group included 30 Burmese, 18 Indonesians, one Bangladeshi and one Thai.

About 30 of them had been detained by 9.45am at roadblocks mounted around the UNHCR building in Bukit Petaling and were taken away in police trucks to the Brickfields police station.