GUANGZHOU: A city in South China's Guangdong province cracked down on a criminal group practising in child abduction and trafficking and saved seven children earlier this month, the Guangzhou Daily reported yesterday.

Nine people were seized by local police, and all the children were sent back to their parents on Monday, an official of the Jiangmen public security bureau told China Daily yesterday.

From July last year to January this year, seven boys aged 2-5 vanished in different parts of Kaiping city, a county-level city of Jiangmen, arousing great concern from the public and media.