Police stop traffic in sex slaves
Police stop traffic in sex slaves
AUSTRALIA: A man was charged in Australia with forcing Indonesian women into prostitution on Wednesday while 14 women were captured during raids on brothels in Melbourne, as police moved to clampdown on the traffic in Asian sex slaves.
Indonesian national, Hosea Yoe, 47, appeared in a Sydney court charged with luring three Indonesian women to Sydney with promises of glamorous jobs and then forcing them to work as prostitutes.
Yoe is the fourth person to be charged after an Australian Federal Police investigation into how the three women ended up in a Sydney brothel.
The women escaped from the brothel in June and fled to a police station in Sydney's suburbs where they claimed they had been kept as sex slaves after arriving in Australia expecting work in public relations and hospitality. --AFP
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Egyptians die in pool of animal blood
JORDAN: Seven Egyptian workers drowned in a pool of animal blood they were assigned to clean at a slaughter house, a Jordanian Civil Defense spokesman said on Wednesday.
The bodies of the seven men - aged between 18 and 40 - were found on Tuesday in a pool of sheep and chicken blood at a farm in Qweirah, a town outside the Red Sea resort of Aqaba, said the spokesman, Col. Farid Sharaa.
Aqaba is 350 kilometers south of the Jordanian capital Amman. Sharaa said that the seven workers, one after the other, were overcome by the stench in the slaughter house and drowned in the pool.
He said the Egyptians were to have cleaned the pool after its automatic pump broke.
Jordan heavily depends on Egyptian labor in farming and construction. --AP
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Air passenger hurt during bomb hoax
EGYPT: A passenger aboard a Kuwait Airways plane was hurt at a Cairo airport on Wednesday as panicked travelers were evacuated from the aircraft following a bomb scare, an airport official said.
Kuwaiti Mohammed Saad Rumi, 27, suffered head injuries as he descended the evacuation slide of flight 544, which had been bound for Kuwait.
After all the passengers aboard the aircraft were evacuated, security forces aided by sniffer dogs began a search of the plane, but no explosives were found.
The state MENA news agency said an anonymous caller had contacted the airport's security services before the flight was to take off and told them there was a bomb aboard.
The passengers panicked when the pilot informed them of the bomb threat ahead of the evacuation. Dozens of others were slightly hurt during the evacuation, MENA said. --AFP