Parents murder their daughter

Tehran - An Iranian couple murdered their eight-year-old daughter because of her poor grades in school, the official IRNA news…

Tehran - An Iranian couple murdered their eight-year-old daughter because of her poor grades in school, the official IRNA news agency reported yesterday.

It said the couple made their daughter drink a glass of weedkiller two months ago to keep her from "becoming a burden to society" after she came home with a bad report from school. They buried her in the yard of an abandoned house.

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