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I put a short account of this story in the paper the other day: 3-year-old Joshua Childers, being an inquisitive boy of his type, simply walked away from his family’s house and wasn’t found for over two days. The puzzle…

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CHENNAI, June 22 — Five Indian anti trafficking campaigners were gang-raped at gunpoint during an awareness programme they were organising in a village, police said today.

Unidentified men picked up nine activists during a street play performance in Kochang village in Jharkhand state and drove them into a dense forest, where the men were beaten up and the women raped, police officer Ashwini Kumar Sinha said.

“It is a very rare case, where people working on anti-trafficking have been targeted,” Sinha told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview from Khunti district of Jharkhand.

“We are not ruling out the possibility of the involvement of trafficking