Fewer young refugees disappear

Thursday 27 March 2008

The number of unaccompanied young people under 18 who disappeared from Dutch asylum centres fell to 122 last year from 240 in 2005 according to integration minister Nebahat Albayrak, reports NRC.

In the last three years 543 young people, mainly from India, China and Nigeria, have gone missing and have probably ended up as prostitutes or addicts, she said.

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