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Police in China have rescued 92 abducted children after a series of raids against an organised kidnapping gang operating across the country, state media reported on Saturday.
The children, victims of China's burgeoning child trafficking industry, were rescued alongside two women, according to a statement from the Ministry of Public Security which was quoted by state-run news agency Xinhua.
More than 300 gang members were taken into custody, the report said.
Police enquiries were initially sparked by a child abduction case in Henan province, central China, according to the ministry statement, and later snowballed into an investigation across 11 provincial-level regions primarily throughout China's southwest.
According to Xinhua, the investigation uncovered a gang operating with "clear divisions of work" where kidnappers would seize children in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces for deliverymen who would then drive them to other regions and into the hands of sellers.
The arrests were made on September 11 but only became public knowledge with the release of the ministry statement.
China is currently experiencing growing public outrage over gangs specialising in the kidnap and sale of children.