Police in Vietnam have arrested three people accused of smuggling newborn babies

Police in Vietnam arrest 3 for smuggling babies
(DPA)

18 February 2008




HANOI - Police in Vietnam have arrested three people accused of
smuggling newborn babies, a policeman said on Monday.


Hoang Duc Hien, 60, Thuan Thi Hoa, 47, and Nguyen Thi Thinh, 42, were
arrested Sunday as they were trying to bring three babies across the
border to China, according to Hoang Quoc Dinh, director of Hoan Kiem
Police Station in Hanoi.

Earlier, the three had bought a one-week-old baby from a woman in
northern Ha Tay province for 3 million dong (187 dollars) and another
baby from a woman in the southern province of Bac Lieu province for 8
million dong (500 dollars), according to the Vietnam News Agency.

The newspaper also said that the three were taking with them another
baby when they were arrested.

'Further investigation is underway and we cannot say anything more
about the case now,' said Hoang Quoc Dinh, director of the police
station of Hoan Kiem district in Hanoi.

'The children smuggling situation in Vietnam is now very complicated,'
said Nguyen Dinh Thiet, head of the Children Department under the
Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Thiet said most of the smuggled Vietnamese children are taken to
China, Cambodia and even to Britain.
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