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These children have just been released from a miserable life of bonded labour, having been locked up and used as child labour. A better life awaits them. For now, they'll go with the goodies being handed to them by the para-military and polices forces who worked together and jointly secured their release. Hundreds of Indian children trafficked and enslaved to make bangles have been rescued by police in a series of early morning raids in the southern city of Hyderabad, local NDTV news channel reported on Friday. Police found 87 children — mostly boys and some as young as 6 years old — crammed into a bangle-making workshop in the old city area in the latest raid on Thursday. Five days earlier, police discovered 220 children when they stormed similar workshops in another part of the city, arr