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Afghan child smugglers risk death - 3 Oct 08

Poverty in Afghanistan is driving some families to take desperate measures to stay alive. They are sending boys as young as five across the border into Pakistan, to buy cheap flour, and smuggle it back home. But the youngsters are risking injury, even death. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports.

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