IranWire:

During the second week of April, the families of six children who went missing from the town of Garmsar posted photographs online, appealing to the public to help find them. Along with the photographs, the families posted phone numbers and offered rewards for the return of their loved ones.

The children went missing at the same time from the same square in Garmsar, which lies 95 kilometers southeast of Tehran.

A few days later, all six children were found at a park in Tehran. The provincial police chief confirmed that the children had indeed gone missing, but the police statement stated they had run away from home of their own free will, setting off to make money by panhandling in the capital.

The police statement failed to explain how a four-year-old child could escape his or her home and travel to Tehran without the involvement of someone else — most likely panhandling gangs, which are a persistent problem in the capital.

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