IN only one month, two of three triplet sisters were stopped by police at Luohu Checkpoint on different dates for attempting to go to Hong Kong by using their sister’s travel permit, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

    Luohu Checkpoint announced Wednesday that the border police had busted a woman from the Chinese mainland as she was trying to slip through the checkpoint by providing her triplet’s ID on March 4.

    The officer on duty that day said that the woman seemed confident as she was examined, and even though she resembled the photo on the travel pass, the police had noticed slight differences.

    The woman was asked to step aside for further examination, but she remained tough during the interrogation and insisted it was her permit. The woman even urged the police to speed up the examination with the excuse of having to catch a flight in Hong Kong.

    After a thorough examination and comparison, the police confirmed that the pass did not belong to the woman and she eventually admitted that she had used her triplet’s document to travel to Hong Kong without any malicious intent.

    The more shocking fact was that the police at Luohu Checkpoint had caught another woman using the same travel pass to cross the border Feb. 15 this year. It turned out that the two women who were busted were actually the sisters of the woman whose travel permit was being used.

    The two women have been punished based on relevant laws and regulations.

    (Zhang Qian)