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Sanitation worker stumbles upon bodies of dead infants
By Pan Zheng |
February 29, 2012, Wednesday
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THE bodies of about 10 newborns were found near a bridge in Dezhou, a city in east China's Shandong Province yesterday, the local Qilu Evening News reported.
Dezhou police and health officials said they were investigating the case but gave no more details.
The bodies were found near the Chahe Bridge on Sanba Road around 7am by a sanitation worker who at first saw one body on the sidewalk of the bridge.
"I found it improper to leave it on the sidewalk so I decided to move it to a roadside ditch," said the woman worker surnamed Sun.
But she was astonished to find more infant bodies on the path to the ditch. Some were held in a plastic bag with a label reading: "Medical waste. Contagious."
Police soon came, gathered the bodies and buried them nearby temporarily, the report said.
A doctor from the obstetrics and gynecology department of a local hospital told the paper that back in the 1980s many families would pay nurses to bury their dead babies in the suburbs. Infant mortality rate is very low nowadays and people choose cremation to dispose of the bodies.
Dezhou police and health officials said they were investigating the case but gave no more details.
The bodies were found near the Chahe Bridge on Sanba Road around 7am by a sanitation worker who at first saw one body on the sidewalk of the bridge.
"I found it improper to leave it on the sidewalk so I decided to move it to a roadside ditch," said the woman worker surnamed Sun.
But she was astonished to find more infant bodies on the path to the ditch. Some were held in a plastic bag with a label reading: "Medical waste. Contagious."
Police soon came, gathered the bodies and buried them nearby temporarily, the report said.
A doctor from the obstetrics and gynecology department of a local hospital told the paper that back in the 1980s many families would pay nurses to bury their dead babies in the suburbs. Infant mortality rate is very low nowadays and people choose cremation to dispose of the bodies.
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