Afghan child worker found dead in irrigation pool

* Source: AA, Photo: AA/Archive

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An Afghan child (13) has been found dead in an irrigation pool near the village where he was working as a shepherd in Beypazarı, Ankara.

Sami Nadiri, the deceased child worker, reportedly came to Beypazarı some time ago and started working as a shepherd for a person named Ömer Gökdemir in the Oymaağaç Neighborhood in Beypazarı.

He was in the Guyununözü area while he was grazing the sheep. When the people in the vicinity reportedly saw the child drowning in the pool that belongs to Gökdemir, they called the gendarmerie.

Taken out of the irrigation pool, the deceased body of the child was first examined by the medical teams, then it was sent to the Ankara Forensic Medicine Institution for an autopsy.

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