15 Chinese 'slave workers' saved by police in Kazakhstan

File photo shows slave labor at a brick factory in Bangladesh. [Photo: www.thepaper.cn]

(ECNS) -- Fifteen Chinese workers who were forced into slave labor at a factory in Kazakhstan have been saved by local police, Xinhua reported, citing the Voice of Russia.

The news office of Almaty said 15 Chinese "slaves" were saved from a private brick factory.

One Chinese had called the local police before and said he and 14 other Chinese workers were forced to work under unbearable conditions at a brick factory.

The local police then went to get them out of the factory.

It was reported that "visible injuries" were found on one of the workers.

The manager of the factory and three assistants are being investigated.

Almaty, the country's largest city, is located in the mountainous area of southern Kazakhstan, bordering China.