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There seems to be a rash of schoolchildren gone missing in Bradford, U.K. 33 kids have simply gone “unaccounted for” after not showing up for classes for over two months. Now government officials have revealed that these children may have been pulled out of school and forced into arranged marriages:

The national Forced Marriage Unit was set up three years ago to tackle the problem regarded as “an abuse of human rights and a form of domestic violence”.

Laws coming into force this summer will allow victims to obtain court injunctions against anyone trying to force them to marry.

A spokesman for the department of children, schools and families said there was no evidence the “missing” children had been forced into marriage but Bradford was an area where “a forced marriage problem has been reported”.

“We have asked the local authority to find out more details about these children,” she said.