RAWALPINDI, Nov 5: A four-day-old baby girl was stolen from the nursery ward of the Holy Family Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, hospital authorities and police said.

A middle-aged man, claiming to be the grandfather of the newly-born baby, walked into the nursery ward at about 4pm and took her away from the incubator.

Abida Bibi, a resident of Metkial, was admitted to the hospital last Friday and delivered herself of a baby girl after going through a surgery on the following day. The baby, who was yet to be named by her parents, was placed in the incubator due to some problems, the hospital authorities said.

“The grandmother of the baby used to take her to her mother in the women ward for feeding, but on Tuesday night when she came to the nursery ward, she was stunned after finding the baby missing,” a nurse said. She said: “Every body, including the doctors and para- medical staff, was present when the stranger walked into the nursery ward and took the baby away. But none of them realized what was happening.”