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Bangladesh police investigate death of 10-year-old worker
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Bangladesh police investigate death of 10-year-old worker Police in Bangladesh are investigating the death of a 10-year-old boy at a textile mill who was killed after co-workers inserted the nozzle of a high-pressure air pump in his rectum and turned it on. The boy, Sagor Borman, worked at a textile mill in Narayanganj, on the outskirts Dhaka, and died on Sunday, police official Forkan Sikdar said. "The boy died after other workers inserted a nozzle through his rectum. His father found his lying beside a compressor machine with his abdomen swollen," Sikdar told Reuters on Monday. under the age of 14 are not allowed to work under Bangladeshi law but labor is common in a country where almost a quarter of its 160 million people live the below poverty line of $2 a day. Bangladesh relies on garments for about 80 percent of its exports and for about 4 million jobs, and is a major supplier of clothes to developed markets in the West. Accidents and poor conditions in the textile and garment sector are a major concern for foreign buyers. The mill where the boy worked produces yarn for garment factories, and about 30 , aged between 10 and 13, were found there when police raided it on Monday, Sikdar said. "They have been handed over to their families." In August, a 12-year-old boy working at a<b> motorcycle </font></b>workshop was killed in the same way after he had tried to quit his job. In November, a speedy trial court sentenced two people to death for the killing the boy. |
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This is just so horrible. The poor parents losing a child in this manner so young. Deplorable doesn't do these conditions justice (Virtual Symposium Group) use Virtual Symposium Group
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