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Death with the taste of sorrow of treasure



According to statistics released by the protection unit of the Ministry of Heritage, Culture, Tourism and Handicrafts, 58 people have lost their lives during unauthorized excavations across the country in the last three years, this shocking bitter statistic should be a lesson for traders.

The highest number of deaths due to these illegal excavations is related to Kermanshah province with 11 deaths during the last three years.

Death in the pit by biting

It was in August of 1999 that in Gilan-e-Gharb city, five young people aged 34 to 43 went to the heights of the cave overlooking the village of Kolah Deraz Sofla in Cheleh district to find treasure and dug a pit about 50 cm deep and 9 m deep. And one person was arrested by law enforcement personnel.

According to a study conducted by the Kermanshah Cultural Heritage Preservation Unit, and according to the commander of the Gilan-e-Gharb police force, the five dug a tunnel in a rock near the village of Kola-e-Daraz-e-Sofla, which lacked historical data, in order to obtain historical property.

Also in May 1400, four other people from Kermanshah province started digging illegally on a hill called Sanjan, which is located between the two villages of Mohammad Abad and Zamani in the Dinur district of Sahneh city, and dug a well at a depth of about 30 meters. The electric motor and the pick-up device were moved into the well. Eventually, three of the diggers lost their lives due to gas poisoning, and with the efforts of the fire and police forces, their bodies were taken out of the well, as well as one person by the personnel. Police were arrested.

During the inspection by experts, this hill was not registered or identified, and according to them, it had one or two layers of habitat up to half a meter deep. Illegal diggers pay a heavy price for losing their lives based on the illusion of finding treasure.

Debris and electric shock

After Kermanshah province, Isfahan province with eight feet during 1998 and 1999 has the second rank in mortality due to these unauthorized excavations. Of these, four illegal diggers, three of whom were between 40 and 46 years old, were killed in Kahrizsang and one 42-year-old in Goldasht. The dead in Kahrizsang were bitten during drilling operations in the well and the dead Goldasht collided with the underground power transmission system during drilling and was electrocuted.

Also in 2009, a 35-year-old man was buried under the rubble of a historic house while digging in a historical house in the historical context of Isfahan.

The provinces of Khorasan Razavi and Ilam each have the next five-foot rankings of deaths due to illegal excavations during the years 98.99 and 1400. Also, the average age of the dead in Khorasan Razavi province was 32 to 35 years.

Fars, Golestan and Gilan provinces with four feet in the last three years, Hamedan and Markazi provinces with three feet, Mazandaran, Kurdistan, Ardabil and West Azerbaijan with two feet and East Azarbaijan, Khuzestan and Zanjan provinces with one foot with the lowest mortality rate due to excavations. They had permission.

Fortunately, the provinces of Alborz, Bushehr, Tehran, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, South Khorasan, North Khorasan, Semnan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Qazvin, Qom, Kerman, Kohgiluyeh and Bobrahmad, Lorestan, Hormozgan and Yazd had no death toll in the past three years.

Illegal excavation traders who have gone to the brink of “death” instead of reaching the “treasure”. Statistics of deaths due to illegal excavations during 1998. 99 and 1400 show that the average age of those on the verge of death is 32 to 45, young people who have lost their lives and their families in the pursuit of treasure.

* Report by Marzieh Amiri

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