The precinct’s police have registered a case and started searching for the parents.
This is the third incident in which a newborn was abandoned, dead or alive, in the garrison city over the last 45 days. Child Protection Bureau (CPB) Rawalpindi has declared the rise of such cases a sensitive matter.
According to the spokesperson Rescue 1122, they received complaints from the citizens that a couple had disposed of an infant’s body in a garbage trolley in the related area after which they reached the site and shifted the body to a hospital.
CPB District Officer Ali Naqvi said so far, bodie of three infants had been found from different areas of the city during the last 45 days.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 22nd, 2019.
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