By gulf-times Bangladeshi coast guards detained 23 boat migrants in the Bay of Bengal for attempting to migrate illegally to Malaysia, police said yesterday. Guards acting on a tip confiscated the boat and arrested the migrants on Friday night on the Naff river estuary near the Eighteen of those detained were Myanmar citizens who had entered illegally into Bangladesh, police said. They were to be deported. The five Bangladeshi citizens would be charged for attempted illegal migration, police officer Abdur Razzak said.