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SPAIN has stepped up to help Morocco after a devastating earthquake left nearly 2,500 dead, and numerous organisations have given details of how to donate aid.
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Nobody realised that the girls, both aged 13, had been living in a restricted area in Terminal 1 with no flight tickets or passports until they were found and questioned on December 28, according to reports in the Spanish daily broadsheet El País released yesterday.
The General Directorate of Childhood Assistance (DGAIA), Catalunya regional government's department for young persons' welfare, has put the girls in a children's home for the time being while police attempt to find out what they were doing in Barcelona and how they got there.
They have not ruled out a possible case of human trafficking.
The teens were caught trying to enter the European flight zone so that they would be within the Schengen passport-free area and not subject to border controls.
Police managed to find a Vietnamese interpreter to help question them, but they did not give much detail about how they arrived in El Prat or what they intended to do there, limiting themselves to disclosing their names and country of origin.
They were carrying money and four mobile phones between them.
Police suspect that, if they have not been trafficked, they may have been abandoned by their adult companions leaving on a connecting flight from Vietnam to another destination.
Photograph of Barcelona terminal by airport governing body AENA
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