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LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Five people have been arrested for keeping 15 poor people in captivity and selling their blood to private clinics in northern India to make money, police said Tuesday.
The victims, who were freed in a raid Sunday, were lured with promises of good jobs and forcibly kept in a home in Gorakhpur, a town about 155 miles southeast of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state, said police Inspector-General D.K. Chaudhary.
India's booming economy has grown by an average of about 8.5 percent per year over the past five years, but more than 300 million of its nearly 1.1 billion people still live on less than a dollar a day. Many become victims of illegal scams.
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