JOHANNESBURG:
South African police said Monday they rescued 57
children who had been smuggled into the country in an unventilated delivery truck
from Malawi.
The group of
children was discovered during the weekend at a routine checkpoint in Rustenburg town, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) **rthwest of Johannesburg.
"During the search 57 undocumented
children ... were found in the back of a delivery truck which is without *******,"
police said in a statement.
Police spokeswoman Mashadi Sepele told AFP that the victims´ exact ages were **t yet k**wn, but that the youngest was believed to be just 11 years old.
"We are 100 percent sure that all of them are children," said Sepele, adding 18 were girls and 39 were boys.
Three men, including the truck driver, were arrested, the statement said.
police suspect the
children were being
trafficked for prostitution or for employment as cheap labour.
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