KATHMANDU: Maiti Nepal, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping sex trafficking victims, has rescued as many as 179 Nepali nationals from India, who were being trafficked to Iraq via Myanmar, reported Annapurna daily.

According to the report, 147 are women and 32 are men among those rescued.

Women Commission based in New Delhi, Manipur Police and local non-government organization had taken initiation in the rescue of these Nepalis while they were being taken to Iraq via Imphal, the provincial capital city of Manipur and Myanmar, says the report.