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British police arrest four on suspicion of enslaving 24 men
Sep 11, 2011, 15:50 GMT
London - Four people have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of enslaving 24 men, including some from Romania and Poland, for up to 15 years in some instances, police said Sunday.
The suspects, three men and a woman, were apprehended at a caravan park in the town of Leighton Buzzard, some 70 kilometres north of London.
More than 200 officers took part in the raid following a long-running police investigation.
'The men we found at the site were in a poor state of physical health and the conditions they were living in were shockingly filthy and cramped,' police chief inspector Sean O'Neil said.
'We believe that some of them had been living and working there in a state of virtual slavery, some for just a few weeks and others for up to 15 years,' he said.
The alleged victims were taken to a medical centre for treatment. The nature of the work they were allegedly made to do or why they had failed to escape was not clear.
Police said they found weapons, drugs and money at the site.
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