Hyderabad, Rabi'II 16, 1436, Feb 5, 2015, SPA -- Police have rescued hundreds of children working in hazardous industries in a southern Indian city despite laws that ban child labor, an official said Thursday. In a series of raids on leather tanning and plastic factories in Hyderabad over the past 10 days, police said they rescued at least 350 children. Child welfare officials accompanied some of the children Thursday as they were sent in a special railway car to be reunited with their parents in Bihar. Nearly 200 children returned to Bihar earlier in the week, AP quoted police as saying. Police arrested five men accused of supplying children to factory owners. A police official said the children were working long hours in deplorable conditions. --SPA 20:06 LOCAL TIME 17:06 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w
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