BBC, 11/22/03: Vietnamese boy 'sold as dog meat'

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Saturday, 22 November, 2003

 

Vietnamese boy 'sold as dog meat'

Vietnamese drug addicts kidnapped a mute teenager and sold him as dog

meat, state media reports.

 

The Gia Dinh Xa Hoi (Family and Society) newspaper said two addicts

took the homeless 13-year-old from a market in Halong city.

 

They tied up the boy, put him in a sack and sold him to a restaurant

for 300,000 dong ($19), the report said.

 

The restaurateur released the boy, fed him and told the police. No

arrests have been made yet, the newspaper said.

 

 

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