Children rescued from quarry

World January 4, 2017 15:15

chennai - Police in India has nearly two hundred sometimes very young children freed, who were forced to work in a quarry in the southern state of Telangana. Among the children were under the police toddlers barely four years old.

The police called Operation Smile Wednesday one of the largest bailouts of children ever. The quarry is in the district Yadadiri about 40 kilometers from the city of Hyderabad. The operation is part of a national campaign against child labor.

The children who were almost all younger than fourteen years in any other state, Odisha, and worked and lived with adults and at the quarry. It is not sure that their parents are.

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