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A young girl has been smuggled out of Somalia in Africa and sold for organ harvesting in the UK, authorities have revealed.
According to THE TELEGRAPH, this is the first case of a child being trafficked into Britain for the express intention of providing organs for people desperate for a transplant.
A report by the British government revealed that human trafficking has reached record levels, rising by 50 per cent in the last year.
Of the 371 children exploited, 95 children were from Vietnam, 67 from Nigeria and 25 from China, with other victims coming from Romania and Bangladesh, the report said.
Most of them were used as slaves or sexually abused.
In 2012, an adult woman was reported as the first case of a human brought to the UK by an organised gang with the intention of removing her organs and selling them on.
According to the World Health Organisation an international shortage of organs for transplantation has led to a black market for organ trading, as well as "organ transplant tourism".
Kidneys are the most trafficked organ, because one can be removed with the patient still being able to live a healthy life.
Around 7,000 kidneys are illegally trafficked annually. Illegal organ trading nets more than $1 billion each year.
