Police nab Asian immigrants at upmarket estate

Indian migrants at Mogoditshane police station
Indian migrants at Mogoditshane police station

Scores of Asian illegal immigrants were nabbed in a police operation at the upmarket estate of Louisville in Block 6, Gaborone on Friday as police smoked out human trafficking, pornography, and money laundering rings based at the hard -to-enter estate.

The raid apparently went on for seven hours as police closed the gates and raided every house.While the police have denied it, residents of Louisville Block 6 Estate woke up to a shock when police raided almost all the houses within the Estate.

According to a security officer at Louisville Block 6 Estate, un-uniformed and uniformed police officers arrived at the estate as residents were waking up for daily activities.

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