Three child workers killed on the job in three days

"I'm a child, I want to play, not work." (Photo: Hayata Destek)

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Three child workers in three different provinces were killed on the job in three days between Saturday and Monday.

On Saturday (July 23), two people, including a 15-year-old identified as Furkan Kalemli, were killed when a minibus carrying agricultural workers rolled over while it was heading from Urfa to Mardin in southeastern Turkey. Seventeen people were injured in the crash.

Muhammet Ongun, 12, was killed the next day after falling from a 50-meter high cliff while he was pasturing goats In Mersin, southern Turkey. His body was recovered during search and rescue efforts that began after Ongun did not return home.

In the northeastern Samsun province, a 13-year-old child died on Monday after falling ill while they were pasturing animals in the Alaçam district.

The child, identified with the initials S.Y., was assessed to be overweight due to obesity. S.Y.'s body was taken to the Samsun Training and Research Hospital for autopsy.

According to the Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG), a group monitoring worker deaths on the job, at least 556 children died while working in the last nine years. (AÖ/VK)