Bhadrak: As many as 27 child labourers, including 16 girls and 11 boys were rescued by police from Jitanaga village under Bhadrak police limits of this district Saturday night.
Acting on a tip-off, police officials conducted a raid on a house and rescued the children. They had been kept at the house to be sent to a neighbouring state in a group where they were supposed to work as bonded labourers, a source said.
The police arrested a woman agent in this connection.
Most of the rescued child labourers are residents of Balasore locality, it was learnt.
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