Twenty-seven illegal immigrants landed at Xlendi Bay at around 6.00pm this evening. The group comprised of twenty-three males and four females.

Gozo police were called immediately to the scene and said that four of the males required medical treatment and needed to be hospitalised in Gozo.

A police bus was also despatched to the scene and is now transporting the remaining twenty-three immigrants to Malta for further investigations by the immigration police.

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