Police in the central Nghe An Province have seized two women for attempting to sell three people including two women to China. The detainees said they themselves fell victim to human trafficking ten years ago.

>> Police seize 3 human traffickers, rescue woman >> Human trafficking on the rise in Vietnam, police warn>> 12 sentenced for trafficking women to China Acting on a tip-off, local police in conjunction with border guards stopped a bus that was travelling from Nghe An’s Vinh city to northern Quang Ninh province at 6:30 pm on Saturday, for examination. They then detained Vi Thi Hieu, 32, and Lang Thi Mai, 30 and rescued their three victims comprising Luong Thi Than, 21, Lang Thi Thu, 30, and 27-year-old man Lo Van Giao. Hieu and Mai later confessed that they intended to take the three people to Quang Ninh’s Mong Cai town where the victims, all hailing from Nghe An’s Que Phong District, will be sold to China via the border. The duo told investigators that they themselves fell victim to human traffickers ten years ago, according to Colonel Tran Minh Cong, of Nghe An police. The women said they were lured to go China and were sold there in 2003. They later married Chinese men who are living in Guang Xi province. Recently, they returned to Vietnam to lure Than, Thu and Giao to go to China for get jobs but in fact, they intended to sell the two women for VND35 million (US$1,650) each and sell the man at a lower price, Cong said. A similar human traffic case happened early this month when police and border guard forces of Nghe An and Quang Ninh provinces worked together to seize three human traffickers who were attempting to sell a woman to China. On September 1 morning the joint force caught Xeo Van Cam, a 27-year-old man from Nghe An, attempting to take a 20 year-old woman across the border illegally. Based on Cam’s testimony, the force later seized a 28-year-old man and a woman.