A group of over fifty Romany arrived in the Port of Hanko from Rostock, Germany on Tuesday evening. Thirty-nine members of the group said that they plan to seek asylum in Finland. The gypsies originally set out from Romania.

   

Superintendent Esko Kari from the Raasepori police reported that the asylum-seekers left Hanko around eleven p.m. on a bus destined for the refugee reception centre in Helsinki. A few in the group had their own cars, but most were ordinary passengers.

   

The group included both adults and children. One woman was taken to hospital compalaining of abdominal pains. According to Kari, it took quite some time to sort out the group's affairs, as there was a lack of a common language.