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Lifeguards in India They continued searching this Monday for a girl swallowed by garbage for almost two days under waste after a collapse in a huge landfill in the west of the country.
Neha Vasava, 12, and a 6-year-old boy were picking up plastic and metal from a 25- to 30-meter high garbage pile at the Pirana landfill in Ahmedabad when part of the mound collapsed on them on Saturday. the night.
Some four million Indians, many of them minors, work in dangerous and unsanitary conditions in landfills to collect various materials for sale.
“The boy was also buried in the trash, but his head was visible and the locals were able to save him,” said fire chief MP Mistry.
“Our operations will continue until we find it,” he said.
He also explained that the work of the rescuers was hampered by “the impossibility of breathing normally amid tons of garbage” and also by the hordes of stray dogs that live in the garbage.
This gigantic landfill receives some 3,500 tons of garbage every day from Ahmedabad, a city of 5.6 million people. Several hundred families live in this place in extreme poverty and work there as rags.
According to UNICEF, more than 41 million children under the age of 12 are forced to work in South Asia.
Experts believe that the confinement imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, which has left millions of people without resources, exacerbated the problem of child labor.
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