The Ministry of Public Security said on April 12 it was carrying out a six-month campaign to identify unattended children found by authorities.

Local police will conduct DNA tests on children with unknown identities and, to learn whether they have been abducted, compare the results with information contained in a national anti-trafficking DNA database.

In 2009, the ministry set up a national DNA database to aid rescue efforts of abducted children. It has collected 20,000 blood samples from unidentified children and from parents whose children are missing, which has helped to confirm the identities of 1,040 children.