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One of the students escaped before the rest were rescued by the security forces last week from what the authorities said was a "farm settlement".

The Republic of Ireland's agriculture minister, Martin Heydon, said his thoughts are with the affected farm family.

Smishing is primarily done through two devices; a Sim farm which holds multiple Sim cards, allowing criminals to bombard people with thousands of scam texts.

And the farmers were unable to count on a key revenue source to keep their farms afloat.

Campaigners are trying to raise £12m to save the historic farm where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne.