IIs escape from flat

THREE illegal immigrant women who had been held in a flat since arriving in Hong Kong this week escaped and went to seek help from Xinhua (the New China News Agency). They were arrested outside the agency's Happy Valley headquarters.

After landing at Lau Fau Shan, two Hong Kong men detained the women at an unknown address until yesterday when they climbed out of the flat through a window. They first tried to catch a train back to China, but KCR staff told them to go to Xinhua because their captors had seized their documents.