Migrants duped into selling organs as trafficking routes closed down

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Human trafficking groups have turned to illegal organ harvesting to fill a drop in income after a squeeze on smuggling routes, according to a new study. Dozens of migrants in the insurgency-hit Sahel region of Africa claimed that they had been tricked by brokers into selling their organs after being deceived by promises of new lives in Europe. Reports have suggested that some of the most vulnerable migrants are paid as little as $1,000 for body parts, most commonly kidneys, which can be sold for a hundred times that amount on the black...

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