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LAGOS – Police in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos said on Wednesday (Oct 2) they had discovered another illegal maternity unit where captives were impregnated and forced to give birth to babies for sale.
Authorities discovered the compound in the Isolo district after officers found seven pregnant women and girls who had fled the centre.
The revelation came just a few days after police said they had rescued 19 expectant mothers from several similar facilities in another area of the sprawling city.
“We got a tip-off about seven pregnant women waiting at a bus stop and our men went there to pick them up,” Lagos police spokesman Bala Elkana told AFP.
“After interrogation, the women said they were (among) 20 women who had been made pregnant in the home and all of them had escaped on Monday night,” he said.
He said only those seven, aged between 13 and 27, had been found and the remaining 13 must have fled to other locations.
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