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LAHAD DATU: Sabah Police rescued eight Filipino and Indonesian girls aged 14 to 18 believed to be victims of forced labour on Tuesday.

The victims were rescued following a raid under Op Pintas Mega carried out by the Sabah Police Contingent's Crime Investigation Department's (CID) Gambling and Secret Societies Division at a factory on Jalan Tungku.

Sabah CID chief Senior Asst Comm Azmi Abd Rahim said following a public tip-off, a team raided the factory at about 8.50am and preliminary investigations found the factory employing child labour and foreign workers without valid identification documents.