KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Fifty students, some as young as 8 years old, were found chained to one another in an underground room at an Islamic religious school in Pakistan, police said.
Video footage from the police raid conducted in a suburb of Karachi showed young men and boys with heavy chains around their ankles, GEO News reported Tuesday.
Police said the students told them they were beaten and shocked with electric wires.
Spokesman Rao Anwar of the Gadap police said the majority of the children were from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of North West Pakistan and had been enrolled in the religious school by their parents.
The parents apparently were not aware of the conditions in which their children were being kept.
Police took the school's imam in for questioning.
