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Sudan police save 85 minors from trafficking network: Interpol
LYON, Sept 10, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Police in Sudan have rescued nearly 100
people, 85 of them minors, after breaking up a human trafficking network in
the northeast African country last month, Interpol said Monday.
Two men and twelve women were arrested and around $20,000 of suspected
ransom money was seized in the operation at several locations in Khartoum as
well as at gold mines east of the city, the international policing agency
said.
The victims, some of whom were as young as 10, were from several African
countries including Chad, DR Congo, Eritrea and Niger.
“The diversity of nationalities amongst those rescued shows how human
trafficking and people smuggling is a truly transnational problem which
requires a coordinated international response,” said Tim Morris, director of
police services for Interpol, which is based in Lyon, France.
The operation, called Sawiyan, was carried out on August 26-30 by some 200
Sudanese police officers assisted by Interpol agents stationed in Khartoum.
The networks abducted migrants and demanded ransoms, the agency said, and
forced their victims to work or beg.
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