Welfare Dept takes in children left in shoplot

Safe and sound: The children being picked up by the state Welfare Department.

JOHOR BARU: The Johor Welfare Department has rescued three young children after pictures of them left on their own in their one-room shoplot as their parents were out working went viral on social media.

A Facebook post that accompanied the pictures claimed that the children – a boy and two girls aged two, four and six – were only given rice and soy sauce, as well as a mobile phone to play games on the whole day.