Vietnamese police have rescued four trafficked Chinese children
who were on their way to a third country, local newspaper
Saigon Liberation reported Wednesday.
Following a suspected taxi to a house in southern Ho Chi Minh
City, the police caught red-handed a local woman hiding four
Chinese children aged 11-14 in the house on Tuesday morning. Thanks
to reports of the taxi driver, the police arrested 36-year-old
Nguyen Van Tien from the city, who is a member of a human
trafficking ring.
Tien confessed that the ring transports foreign children to
Vietnam, a transit point, and then to a third country.
Tien said he has so far hired automobiles, mainly taxis, five
times to transport a total of 19 Chinese children aged 5-12 from
the city to southern Tay Ninh province, in which his accomplices
would take them to Cambodia.
The four Chinese children, including a 14-year-old girl, her
12-year-old brother, their cousin, and an 11-year-old boy (their
friend living next door), said five days before May 9, when going
out in China with their aunt, they were taken to somewhere they did
not know.
Besides Tien, Vietnamese police detained seven suspected people
for further investigation.
(Xinhua News Agency May 10, 2006)
