India..Rescuing a 5-day-old baby who was thrown to death in a sewage ditch

The girl was picked up by two policemen, who wrapped her in a piece of cloth and took her to the hospital.

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A five-day-old baby girl was found dumped to death in a sewage pit.

Doctors at a local hospital in Rajawaddy said the baby was fine and her health was being monitored.

The incident caused an uproar on social media and local newspapers, and pictures were taken of police officers embracing the baby girl wrapped in a white cloth at the scene.

And the BBC quoted local police as saying that residents found the baby after cats gathered in a spot along the street and started quarreling among themselves, making loud noises.

According to the BBC, the police have not released their guesses about the possible motives for this work, but similar cases of abandonment of children in the past have been blamed on families in India's preference for boys.

Women are often socially discriminated against and girls are seen as an economic burden, especially among poor families.

When the police arrived, they found the baby girl lying in a sewage pit.

She said the little girl - who was in a flimsy shirt and soaked in sewage - was crying excruciatingly.

Then two policewomen picked her up, wrapped her in a piece of cloth and took her to the hospital.

Police officer Sheetal Sunawen told the Times of India: 'When we picked up the baby, she had been frozen and her arms had turned blue.

We asked for some warm water and a piece of cloth to clean the baby.”

In an earlier incident, in the winter of 2016, an infant was found abandoned inside a plastic bag without any clothes in the capital, Delhi.

And last June, a boat driver in Uttar Pradesh was praised after he rescued a baby girl who was found floating in a wooden box in the Ganges.

Activists say the preference of families in India for boys over girls has resulted in millions of female fetuses being aborted over the past few decades.

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