Thu May 26, 2022 – 5:32 pm EDT
TEHRAN, Iran (LifeSiteNews) — A tearjerking video out of Iran shows a garbageman rescuing a newborn baby boy who was stuffed into a trash bag and abandoned in a city dumpster.
In the harrowing footage posted by the New York Post on May 25, the unnamed garbageman in Iran’s capital city of Tehran can be seen lifting a black, tied-closed trash bag carefully from a dumpster and placing it delicately on the ground. Afterward, the video angle changes to show the man carefully untying the plastic bag, at which point a baby can be seen moving inside with his umbilical cord still attached.
The baby boy, who is in stable condition according to local reports, appeared unharmed in the footage despite the dreadful circumstance, and was transported immediately to a local hospital by first responders.
According to the New York Post, the garbageman was alerted to the dumpster after he said he could hear muffled breathing sounds coming from a trash bag.
Local authorities have said they are investigating the situation, which is just one of many examples of the child abandonment crisis occurring in Iran.
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