NEW DELHI, Jan 30, 2015 (AFP) - Indian police have rescued hundreds of child slaves as young as six during days of raids on workshops in the central city of Hyderabad, a senior officer said Friday.
Police discovered 120 children, some of them sick, underweight and traumatised, during the most recent raids late Thursday on bangle-making and other workshops, as part of a city-wide crackdown on child slavery, the officer said.
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