A newborn girl's body was found in an Uttar Pradesh garbage dump (Representational)
Muzaffarnagar:
The body of a newborn girl was found abandoned in a garbage dump in Makki locality, police said on Thursday.
After some passersby spotted her, they informed the police about it. The body was sent for postmortem, they said, adding a search was on to trace her parents.
Two incidents of girls being abandoned were reported recently in the neighbouring Shamli district. On October 2, a newborn girl was found abandoned in some fields in Banat town and she was later taken to a hospital.
In Jalalabad town, a newborn baby was found lying in a jungle. She was rushed to a hospital where she was declared dead.
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