KATHMANDU: One thousand six hundred and seventy-nine persons who had fallen prey to human trafficking have been rescued from various countries, including Nepal, in the last five years.
Nepal Police, Human Trafficking Investigation Bureau revealed that many victims of human trafficking were rescued from the fiscal year 2019/20 to 2023/24.
Bureau Chief SSP Jeevan Kumar Shrestha disclosed that among those rescued, 1,134 were rescued by the police office in various districts and 544 at the initiatives of the Bureau alone.
Among the rescued 1078 are women and 605 are men. SSP Shrestha shared that 214 people who were the victims of human trafficking were rescued in fiscal year 2022/23 while 336 were rescued in fiscal year 2023/24.
As he said the incidences of trafficking in persons are increasing in the name of foreign employment.
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