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Police find newborn girl on school grounds
Police cordon at the site of a newborn baby’s discovery not far from a school site in Bielefeld. photo
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Walkers discover a cloth with an umbilical cord on a street. The alerted police then make a discovery on a nearby school site.
According to a statement from the police and public prosecutor’s office, a walker alerted the fire department on Saturday morning after finding a cloth with an umbilical cord on a street. The police then discovered the newborn in the area where the cloth was found. The emergency services began resuscitating the baby, which the rescue workers continued shortly afterwards. The child was then taken to a hospital.
There was still no information about the baby’s mother on Sunday. It is also unclear how the girl got to where she was found, a police spokesman said. A murder squad was set up.