Dozens of Chinese workers have been taken and put up in hotels in Brazil’s tropical northeastern region after local labor authorities found them at a construction site for electric vehicle automaker BYD.

Authorities in Brazil rescued more than 160 Chinese workers from "slave-like" conditions at a construction site where they had been building a factory for a Chinese car manufacturer, reports said Thursday.

As per a Bloomberg report, authorities in Brazil investigated an under-construction site for a BYD factory in the northeast state of Bahia. Here, it was allegedly found that worke