Police deny child trafficking report
2010-06-28 19:19
Johannesburg - South African police on Monday dismissed as a "lie" a report that 20 children were found in cardboard boxes and covered with blankets inside a truck at the border between Mozambique and South Africa.
"It's a blue lie. I would have been the first person to know about such an incident," Mpumalanga police spokesperson Captain Leonard Hlathi told Sapa.
Earlier French news agency AFP reported that South African border police found 20 Mozambican and Thai children, aged between 9 and 16, in a truck at the Komatipoort crossing.
The children were discovered "a week or two ago".
According to Hlathi: "If you say this happened a week ago, by now I would have heard something."
- SAPA
