Police in Ghana have arrested five women suspected of operating a human-trafficking ring.

They allegedly took young women from Nigeria to Ghana, promising them lucrative jobs.

They told the parents of the trafficked women that they operated businesses in Ghana and needed people to work in sales, police said.

But when the women arrived in Ghana they were forced into prostitution and warned never to alert the Ghanaian authorities.

They were also forced to pay the traffickers, believed to be Nigerian, $60 (£46) a day until they had covered the cost of bringing them into the country.

The police are currently searching for other suspects and also making efforts to find the trafficked women.

Seven young women, between the ages of 22 to 26 who were allegedly forced into prostitution in Tarkwa - a mining town in southern Ghana, have already been rescued.