KwaZulu-Natal police have busted a human trafficking and child sex ring in Durban.
Police spokesperson, Colonel Vincent Mdunge says 16 girls - eight of them minors - were rescued from a building in the Point area on Friday.
He says some of the girls are as young as 12-years, and some were under the influence of drugs.
Mdunge says the girls were captured in different parts of the country and were in transit in Durban.
He says from there they are dispatched to different countries, where they are sold for different reasons.
Four people have been arrested.