Maid agency raid rescues 22 women, girls

Following a raid on a Phnom Penh recruitment agency, military police yesterday detained two people and rescued 22 girls and women aged 13 to 25 who claimed they were being held against their will ahead of being sent to Malaysia to work as maids. Municipal military police raided Century (Cambodia) Manpower Co Ltd in Sen Sok district at about 3pm after the family of a 15-year-old girl, who was being held at the center, filed a complaint against the firm, said Chea Chouk, chief of the municipal anti-human trafficking military police…