Chinese authorities have apprehended four young girls in southwest China for smuggling heroin hidden inside their bodies.

Xinhua reports that police in Longling, Yunnan Province, working on a tip, pulled over a minibus suspected of transporting drugs in Haitou Village last week. In the vehicle were four girls between 11 and 14 who were from the neighboring Sichuan Province.

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The children said they were lured by an "unfamiliar auntie" with 10,000 yuan ($1,635) if they agreed to transfer "some goods" from Yunnan's border areas to Sichuan. They had swallowed a total of 320 capsules of heroin before police intervened, according to local police.

The police confiscated a total of three pounds of heroin from the girls, who have since been sent back home. The police are now looking for the "auntie" and anyone else involved.

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