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Page last updated at 08:33 GMT, Sunday, 31 January 2010

Haiti holds US 'child smugglers'

Haitian police have arrested 10 US nationals on suspicion of trying to illegally take 33 children abroad.

They say the Americans were held on the border with the Dominican Republic.

The group from Idaho-based charity New Life Children's Refuge told the BBC they wanted to take quake orphans to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports.

READ MORE: Haiti holds US 'child smugglers'

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