Police have rescued 402 children in raids on 20 welfare homes in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan where they were allegedly taught to sodomise each other.

Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain said the police also arrested 171 people in the operation conducted from 6am to 11am today on the welfare homes believed to be run by Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISBH).

The raids came following a...