Police arrest 30 in Europe-wide child-porn ring

WARSAW, Feb 24 (Reuters) Police arrested about 30 people in several countries across Europe today in a sting operation against a suspected child-porn ring, Polish private television station TVN 24 said.

It quoted officials as saying a dozen arrests were made in the Polish cities of Krakow, Gdansk and Lomza. Polish police were cooperating with authorities in Spain and other European countries, it said.

''We have seized several hundred pictures and several dozen short films of pornographic nature involving under-age children of less than 15 years of age,'' the Polish PAP news agency quoted police spokesman Kamil Tomaszczuk as saying.

''They included pictures involving animals.'' REUTERS SBJ HS2118