Custom may explain dumping of dead babies in China
By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 15 mins ago
BEIJING – Rural traditions of abandoning dead infants because they're considered bad luck may have played a role in the case of 21 babies' bodies found along a river in eastern China, apparently dumped by hospital mortuary workers.
The little bodies — at least one stuffed in a yellow bag marked "medical waste" — were found floating and strewn along the bank of a river on the outskirts of Jining city in Shandong province last weekend.
Police detained two mortuary workers at a hospital who were paid by the babies' families to dispose of the bodies.
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