India, April 22 -- The railway police arrested two traffickers and rescued six children from Gaya-Chennai Express at Dehri-on-Sone station in Bihar on Monday, officials said.

The two arrested child traffickers have been identified as Ravi Kumar (23) of Maigra in Gaya and Devnarayan Oraon (35) of Ranadih in Rohtas district, and they were taking the children to Chennai to work as labourers.

The children, in the 13-15 years age group, belonged to poor families of scheduled caste Bhuiyan community. Five of them were residents of Naxal affected villages falling under Maigra police station area in Gaya district and one from Rohtas district.

The rescued children told police that the traffickers had given some amount of money to their families...