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Container kids 'to be sold as slaves'.
(From Newsletter)
NIGERIAN police found more than 60 children packed into a shipping container in Lagos, and a police said it was believed they were to be sold as slaves or servants.
A woman accompanying the children was arrested after the discovery of the 60-70 boys and girls aged five to 14 on Sunday.
The children were in a container normallyused for carrying fish, said police spokesman Emmanuel Ighodalo in Abuja, the capital.
"We are trying to find out what they would be doing with children aged five to 14,'' said Ighodalo. ''We are thinking maybe they are using them for slaves and house boys.''
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