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At least 350 children have been saved from factories in a southern Indian city Hyderabad in the past 10 days. Child welfare officers were with them as they were put on a special train to go back to their parents in Bihar, one of India's poorest states.

Police arrested five men because of giving children to factory owners. A police official said the children were working long hours in very bad conditions.

They were forced to work for nearly 12 hours a day without any rest.Many were suffering from skin and other diseases as they were forced to work in dirty dark rooms. The boss would watch them all the time and any child who stopped working would be beaten.

It is illegal to hire child labour in India. And education for children under 14 is compulsory. But poverty means many children are still forced into work, because factory owners say they will give money to their parents.

It is said that about 4.35 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are child labour in 2011.          

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