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Nepali, Bangladeshi migrants trapped in Syria

By Agence France-Presse in Murali Bhanjyang, Nepal | China Daily | Updated: 2016-03-14 08:08

Nepali villager Sunita Magar thought she was heading to a safe factory job in Kuwait, but only when she landed in Damascus did she realize "something had gone very wrong".

Frequently beaten with a baton and given only one meal a day, Magar says she spent 13 months working as a maid for a Syrian household and pleading to be allowed to go home.

"I was just in shock, I couldn't stop crying," the single mother-of-two said.

Nepali, Bangladeshi migrants trapped in Syria

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