Canadian immigration officials are examining the status of 76 suspected illegal migrants whose ship was seized off Canada's Pacific coast.
Hearings to assess their admissibility to Canada are set to begin early this week, officials said.
The 76 young men, thought to be Tamils from Sri Lanka, are being held at a detention centre near Vancouver.
It is the first case of suspected people smuggling off Canada's Pacific coast for a decade.
They were on a freighter, the Ocean Lady, intercepted by a Canadian navy frigate on Friday and taken to a dock on Vancouver Island.
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