Two Cardboard Kids Run Over by Car in Iran

 Saturday, July 25, 2015 1:11:23 PM


Two homeless kids sleeping on cardboard were ran over by a pickups� wheels in the Kalat County�s road, Razavi Khorasan Province.

 

The seven-year-old kid who slept along with his cousin on the road killed after running over by the car according to the news received by BCR Group.

Rescue Forces transferred kids to the Hasheminejad hospital, but one of the kids died despite of health care treatment. The other kid hospitalized, and he is under medical supervision.

Pickups driver said to the court�s magistrate that �I did not think that nobody sleep in cardboard placed in the corner�. Shahrvand Newspaper declared that Branch 204 of the Court obligated chasing details of the tragedy in the city of Mashhad.

�Working children of Iran are burdened with long hours and rarely have time to rest or have fun. Child market is not a new phenomenon in Iran, rather; it is a bitter reality that has been breathing alongside pedestrian without any fear for many years and offers you a mint flavored chewing gum� a children labor said to BCR Group.

Unofficial statistics estimate the number of children labors are seven million. And other report indicates of three million and 200 thousands child labors in Iran that Iran parliament research center report had Represented three years ago.

Children's market; children auction from 100.000 Tomans to 5 Million Tomans (Official currency of Iran), or they are rented for hours or few days. It is the Black-Market that is accustomed to street-life in Iran.


By: Kaveh Taheri