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NEW DELHI, India (AP) - For two years, 12-year-old Bhola worked more than 15 hours a day without being paid or allowed to visit his parents. On Thursday, a local non-governmental organization freed him and 49 other child laborers like him.
The children — all boys aged between eight and 14 whose parents are poor farm laborers in the eastern Indian state of Bihar — had been brought to New Delhi to work in small factories making elaborately embroidered fabric called "zari."
The embroidery requires working with very fine needles on which the children often hurt themselves.
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