A group of young women whom smugglers planned to abduct and force into prostitution have been rescued by police in Shantou, reports Yangcheng Evening News.

More than 80 border police were dispatched to search for the women after Chaozhou police received a call from one of them saying she had been taken away on a boat at noon last Friday. Twenty women, including nine who voluntarily went on the trip, were found at around midnight on a seaside road.

The other 11 said they were lured to Shantou with the promise of jobs, and the smugglers pretended they were taking them to the sea to enjoy the view first.

When they realized they were being abducted, the women threatened to jump into the water to commit suicide, forcing the smugglers to return them to the land.

Meanwhile, one of the women secretly took a smuggler's cellphone and called police. Three men and one woman were arrested for organizing human smuggling.

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