Chinese police have detained a Vietnamese woman and a Chinese
man who allegedly smuggled four babies from Vietnam into China,
local police said Thursday.
The woman was caught holding two babies in arms on the
China-Vietnam border in Dongxing City of southern Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region Tuesday night, when she illegally entered Chinese
territory across a river. The woman seemed not to be the mother
judging from her appearance, a spokesman with the Dongxing police
said.
Police questioned the 53-year-old woman surnamed Pham from Mong
Cai City of northeast Vietnam's Quang Ninh Province, and she
confessed that she had planned to sell the two babies aged below
two months to a man surnamed Ruan from south China's Guangdong
Province, the spokesman said.
Pham also confessed that she has smuggled four babies on three
separate occasions into China this month.
Ruan was later captured in a makeshift shed in Dongxing, which
neighbors Mong Cai.
The two babies are now being attended by the Dongxing Municipal
Obstetric and Gynaecology Hospital, the spokesman said.
The case is being further investigated, he added.
(Xinhua News Agency, November 29, 2007)