POLICE are searching for a man from Ghana who escaped on Monday morning while awaiting deportation.

Police had asked for assistance in locating the man who arrived from Korea last week with a fake passport. The suspect fled from a motel in Martintar after arriving with two other men from Ghana.

The three were detained after immigration officials noticed that their passports were fake when they arrived at the Nadi International Airport. The three men escaped at 5am on Monday.

However, two, aged 28 and 25, were arrested in Nadi Town.