MORBID CURIOUSITY--Police find baby bones in Indian hospital yard

Feb. 18, 2007, 9:24PM
Police find baby bones in Indian hospital yard
Two arrests are made, including the medical superintendent

By HARI KUMAR
New York Times

NEW DELHI — The police in central India came across a grisly mystery on the grounds of a hospital over the weekend, with the discovery of 396 small bones and bone fragments that they say could be the remains of newborn babies or fetuses.

The bones were found in plastic bags Saturday afternoon in Ratlam, a town in central Madhya Pradesh state. The police said that the remains could be from five or six babies or fetuses.

The police chief of the area, S.K. Saxena, reached by telephone, said that the authorities did not know the identities of the dead or why the remains had been left behind Mission Hospital, which is run by Christian missionaries.

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