Child workers rescued in Nigeria
Seventy-four child workers as young as four – their skin broken and palms covered in blisters from months of hauling granite – were receiving food, clothes and medical care in the west African state of Benin today after being rescued from traffickers who sold them into heavy labour.
Children told their rescuers that at least 13 of their young companions had died in the past three months – worn out by smashing and carrying rocks and sleeping, without adequate food, in the open, UN officials said.
