KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has conducted a raid hotel near Jinnah International Airport Karachi and arrested three human traffickers.
FIA's Anti-Human Trafficking Circle personnel raided a hotel near Airport Chota Gate on Shahrah-e-Faisal and detained 7 persons, including 3 identified as human traffickers.
According to the authorities, four of the detainees are travelers who were paid huge sums of money by human traffickers to send them to Iraq and were planning to send them abroad.
The arrested agents and passengers have been shifted to Anti Human Trafficking Cell.
They are being investigated further.
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Earlier, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a human trafficker from Gujranwala involved in the Libyan boat tragedy.
The accused was arrested in Gujranwala and allegedly involved in the Libyan boat incident. He was absconding after the registration of the case.
FIA officials said that the accused had taken 7.1 million to send more than 5 youths to Italy. The persons whom the accused had sent had died in a boat accident.
