KATHMANDU: In what could be the biggest incident of trafficking of Nepali citizens in a month, authorities in Manipur, a state in northeast India, and activists said that as many as 301 Nepali men and women might have been smuggled into other countries using the India-Myanmar border.

The rescue operation of Nepali citizens being trafficked to Southeast Asian and Gulf countries, which started on Friday morning, has gathered more pieces of evidence that show these Nepali citizens were trafficked into Myanmar via Moreh-India-Myanmar border-between December and January. (The Kathmandu Post)