KATHMANDU: Nepal police have arrested 10 people, including four Chinese citizens for allegedly trafficking women to China in the pretext of marrying them, officials said.

The police’s anti-trafficking unit rescued four women in this connection, they said.

Police said six of the arrested were Nepalese. The Nepali operatives were identified as Rina Tamang Bibirani, Parbati Gurung, Amrita Gurung, Usha Ghimire, Roj Tamang, and Bharat Tamang, informed Senior Superintendent of Police Ishwar Babu Karki. “They were involved in trafficking Nepali girls and women to China as brides,” he said.

The Chinese nationals accused were identified as Zhen Xianjdong, Zhang Donghui, Quan Zhan Peng and Qin Liyang of China’s Hubei province. The Chinese nationals had obtained fake marriage certificates and were heading towards China, officials said, adding 12 mobile phones, Nepalese Rs 22 lakh, Chinese Yuan 2,300 and USD 190 were seized from them.