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89 abducted kids rescued by police in national campaign

Police across the nation have joined forces to rescue 89 children who were abducted and sold by two criminal gangs and 369 suspects were arrested in a national crackdown on child kidnapping, Xinhua reported yesterday.

According to the Ministry of Public Security, police in southern Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region recently caught 39 people, most of them Vietnamese, who had allegedly abducted Vietnamese children and sold them to Chinese families. During the July 15 raid, officers saved eight children.

In another raid on July 20, more than 2,600 officers in 14 provinces across China acted to trace and arrest 330 suspects involved in a criminal network kidnapping and selling children. Police rescued 81 children during the action, the public security ministry said.

Investigations into the two cases are still ongoing.

The rescued children have been sent to civil affair facilities and are waiting for their parents to claim them. If DNA tests are unable to reunite the abducted children with their parents, qualified domestic families can apply for adoption, The Beijing News reported.



 

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