The Maldives Immigration is looking for the foreigner who escaped from the detention center at Velana International Airport today.

Immigration said that a 26-year-old Bangladeshi citizen Mohammed Mithun is wanted in connection with the case.

Immigration said the fugitive had previously worked in Sri Lanka without a work visa and was deported for a certain period of time. Some media’s reported that he was being held in the detention center to be deported.

The fugitive fled the Airport’s detention center by breaking its ceiling earlier today.