KARACHI: Infant abandoned in plastic bag recovered
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 24: A two-day old girl was recovered alive from a stormwater drain in North Nazimabad on Friday. The infant was stuffed in a sealed plastic bag.
“There was condensed water vapour from her breath visible in the plastic bag before we broke the seal to take the infant out,” said Sarim Burney of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust.
Doctors were astonished to see the infant alive despite being packed in an airtight bag. A leg was found broken during her medical examination which was taken care of by the doctors, Mr Burney said.
“The girl seems to have been delivered at a hospital as a specific tool was attached to her navel for the detachment of the umbilical cord,” he pointed out.
It could not be ascertained whether the infant was dumped on gender ground or she was an unwanted baby.
Describing the infant as ‘very cute’, he said that following her medical treatment, the baby has been kept by the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust.
ACCIDENT: In a head-on collision between a land cruiser and a passenger coach left one person dead and another 10 injured on Malir Bridge on Friday morning.
Police said that the land cruiser’s driver died on the spot and the 10 persons injured were passengers of the coach. The deceased and injured were taken to Jinnah Hospital, they added.
The accident caused a severe traffic jam in the morning rush hour as the vehicles destined for Steel Mills and Port Qasim were stuck in the queue from the point as far away as Malir Courts and Malir 15. A similar situation was witnessed at the Quaidabad Chowk side, police said.
SNATCHED: Nineteen vehicles and 60 mobile phones were taken away by bandits.
Five cars and three motorcycles were snatched at gunpoint while 10 cars and a motorcycle were reported stolen.
Police said 14 mobile phones were snatched and 39 were reported stolen while seven sets were reported missing.
