PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Dozens of people were found on Wednesday in squalid conditions, chained and in cages in a Trinidad and Tobago rehabilitation centre run by a religious group for ex-prisoners and drug users, where some were tortured and held for years, police said.
Police said in a statement that 65 men and 4 women were rescued from a "modern-day slavery" operation at the Transformed Life Ministry Rehabilitation Centre in Arouca, 19 kilometres east of the capital Port of Spain. Six people at the compound were arrested.
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