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Dozens of young adults and children who were allegedly held captive in a suburban house in Johannesburg escaped on Wednesday, police said, in a suspected case of human trafficking.
Police have found 32 of the escapees, all of whom are Ethiopian nationals, spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo told journalists.
The case echoes others around Johannesburg in recent months, with industrialised South Africa drawing streams of migrants, many of them undocumented, from countries such as Malawi, Lesotho and further afield.
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN JOHANNESBURG
Videos shared on social media showed people, some of them barefoot, running in the streets in Johannesburg’s suburb of Lombardy East.
In January, Johannesburg police rescued 26 undocumented Ethiopian nationals, who were being held captive without clothes or documents by suspected human traffickers.
In August last year, police found more than 80 undocumented Ethiopians locked in a house in inhumane conditions in another suburb of the city.
DOZENS OF YOUNG ADULTS AND CHILDREN ESCAPE FROM SUSPECTED HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN JOHANNESBURG
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