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November 12, 2003

Young boys rescued from slave-like labor

Young boys rescued from slave-like labor

Young boys rescued from slave-like labor

COTONOU, Benin (AP) -- Their bodies scarred by beatings and their hands callused from breaking rocks, 74 boys as young as 4 received medical treatment this week after their rescue from Nigerian granite quarries where they had been forced to work.

Nigerian police rescued the boys Wednesday and repatriated them to Benin under an accord between the two nations on child trafficking and other cross-border crimes.

Following their rescue -- only the second of its kind in West Africa -- the children told authorities that over the previous three months at least 13 other boys died, succumbing to exhaustion, disease, hunger and abuse, Nigerian police and aid workers said.

"We would break the stones, and the men would come take them away in trucks," one boy said. Skinny, filthy, scratched and heavily scarred, the boy looked no more than 10.

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