As many as 21 illegal Nepali migrant workers who were staying in a detention centre of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport after completing their jail term were rescued and sent to Nepal on Tuesday. 

According to the Nepali Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, the Nepal Foreign Employment Promotion Board helped the workers to buy their air tickets. The embassy informed that 487 illegal Nepali workers have been assisted to return home with the help of the government and various organisations in the past one and a half years.