About 50 students have been freed from a religious school in Karachi, Pakistan - where some were being kept in chains, local officials say.
Reports suggest the male students, some as young as 12, were kept in what amounted to a torture chamber.
They were beaten, deprived of food and pressured to join the Taliban, the reports say.
At least two people helping run the madrassa have been arrested, but the head escaped, police said.
Pakistan's interior minister has ordered an inquiry into the incident. Full story...
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Reports suggest the male students, some as young as 12, were kept in what amounted to a torture chamber.
They were beaten, deprived of food and pressured to join the Taliban, the reports say.
At least two people helping run the madrassa have been arrested, but the head escaped, police said.
Pakistan's interior minister has ordered an inquiry into the incident. Full story...
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