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Cops rescue 11 children from traffickers

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
PHOTO: STAR Eleven children rescued from traffickers pose for photographs at Keraniganj Police Station yesterday. Two alleged traffickers are also seen behind the kids.
Police rescued 11 children, brought from Bhola allegedly for trafficking, at the Sadarghat launch terminal yesterday.
The children, seven girls and four boys all aged under 14, were herded from different villages of Charfassion upazila in Bhola for Talim (education) at a madrasa in Dhaka.
Police sources said they were brought to Dhaka for trafficking outside Bangladesh.
The racketeers, Hasina Begum, 35, Sabera Begum, 45, and Kulsum Begum, 45, boarded a launch from Charfassion on Friday morning and arrived at the Sadarghat launch terminal at 8:30am yesterday.
“Ansar men stationed there informed us about them after seeing the three women suspiciously taking the children inside the launch and bringing them out a while later,” Sergeant Fakir Saifuddin of river police outpost at Sadarghat told reporters. The river police raided the launch and arrested the gang.
The children were identified as Siraj Hossain, 5; Taslima, 9; Zannat, 14; Salma (1), 10; Yasnur, 13; Benu, 13; Selim, 14; Jharna, 14; Salma (2), 12; Al Amin, 10; and Dulal, 12.
Talking to reporters at Keraniganj Police Station, the children burst into tears. “Take me to my mother…. I want to go home,” Taslima said while weeping continuously.
The children said the traffickers lured their parents with the promise of good education and lodging in Dhaka and a bright future for the children. “Thus they convinced my father,” said Benu. “My parents do not know their real motive,” Zannat told reporters, as she broke down in
tears.
Hasina, the leader of the gang, said, “We've told their fathers that we'll give them Tk 500 a month and good clothing, to convince them.”
“Rahim told us to bring some girls. He lives near the bridge in Hazaribagh,” she added.
The gang members hailed from Char Kospaiya area of Charfassion upazila. Hasina denied taking money for bringing the children to Dhaka, but Sabera, her accomplice, said Rahim promised Tk 5,000 to each of the women for the job.
The children were kept in safe custody of Keraniganj Police Station while the police are interrogating the three women.
A duty officer at the police station said no further developments regarding the investigation were made as of yesterday evening.