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+100 vietnamese brides VANISH in China
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Police in China have launched an investigation to locate more than 100 Vietnamese women who have gone missing in China's northern province of Hebei.
The women had been brought to the country by a marriage matchmaker to be paired with men living in rural villages near Handan, reports BBC News. The matchmaker, a Vietnamese woman named Wu Meiyu who had been living in China for 20 years, has also vanished.
Just before disappearing, the women reportedly told their husbands that they were going to have a meal with other Vietnamese brides. After that point, the women could no longer be reached. When the husbands when to Wu's home to find out what happened, they discovered that she too was missing and had left a few days earlier.
A Chinese official said that an "organized ring" may have been involved in the women's disappearance, reports China Daily.
Human trafficking by organized crime has been on the rise in China. Police busted multiple sex slave rings just last month alone, including one that abducted mentally disabled women and sold them as sex slaves for 10,000 to 20,000 yuan ($1,634 to $3,268).
Another gang was arrested for kidnapping 14 women and five children to sell as wives in rural China. The women, 11 of whom were from Myanmar, were lured with promises of free holidays or jobs. The women and children were then sold for 50,000 to 90,000 yuan (£8,141).
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