Scores held over human trafficking

POLICE have detained 168 people linked to a human-trafficking network supplying slave labour to mines and brick works in north and central China, according to the state news agency, Xinhua.

At total of 568 people were freed from slavery in brick kilns and illegal mines in raids on sites in Shanxi and central Henan provinces.

More than 350 people, including 22 children, were freed from 3,700 brick works and coal mines in Shanxi while 217, including 29 children and 10 mentally handicapped people, were released in Henan.