The Immigration Department has arrested 65 illegal workers, nine overstayers, five illegal immigrants and 30 local employers in a six-day operation ending yesterday.

More than 200 locations were raided, including restaurants and food shops, warehouses, trading firms, hair salons, foot reflexology centres, refuse collection depots and lodging places.

The illegal workers comprise 17 men and 48 women aged 23 to 64. One came from France, one from Tonga, 10 from Indonesia, four from the Philippines and 49 from the Mainland.

The illegal immigrants were four Mainlanders and one from Vietnam aged 25 to 47. Thirty Hong Kong residents, aged 32 to 69, were arrested for hiring illegal workers or aiding and abetting others in breaching their conditions of stay.

Six counterfeit Hong Kong smart identity cards were also found on the illegal workers working in restaurants and food shops.

At border control points the department refused entry to 180 visitors suspected of being illegal workers.