Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Mozambique: Not Child Trafficking, But Religious Indoctrination

The Mozambican police have detained seven people in connection with the alleged abduction of 40 children.

The children are from the northern provinces of Nampula and Cabo Delgado, and the central province of Zambezia. The truck carrying them to the south was seized by the police on Monday, after one child escaped and denounced the alleged kidnapping. It was feared that the children had fallen into the hands of child traffickers.

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