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Police rescue 30 missing children

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    Police in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, have rescued 30 missing children discovered in the home of a suspected kidnapper, 'The Comet' newspaper reported on Tuesday. The Lagos daily said detectives acting on a tipoff raided a house where the children aged between nine years and 16 years had been kept by a woman, who escaped arrest. The paper said cases of missing persons had been on the increase in recent years in the city of about 12 million people.

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