Newborns Suffocated

In a gruesome incident, a 42-year-old woman allegedly smothered her newborn child to death and buried the body in a pit she dug in the backyard of her beachside home in nearby Anchuthengu, police said on Friday.

While it was not immediately known what caused the fire, eyewitnesses said an electrical short-circuit triggered the blaze at Honey Children's Hospital, said Block Health Officer.

Four members of a family including a woman and her 12-day-old newborn were found dead in their house near Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal on Tuesday evening, the police said. The woman's husband was found unconscious beside the bodies of her 40-year-old mother and 12-year-old brother.

A 22-year-old woman has been arrested from Ghaziabad's Patla town for allegedly smothering her newborn girl because she wanted a boy, police said on Monday.

People had placed candles outside the gates of the home of a Frenchwoman who authorities say has acknowledged suffocating eight of her newborn babies. Police had already sealed off the house in the northern town of Villers-au-Tertre , and authorities are conducting DNA tests to establish for sure that Dominique Cottrez and her husband Pierre-Marie ...

A French woman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday.Dominique Cottrez, a 46-year-old nurse's aide with two grown daughters, said that after a bad experience with her first pregnancy she never again wanted to see...

In a gruesome incident, a 42-year-old woman allegedly smothered her newborn child to death and buried the body in a pit she dug in the backyard of her beachside home in nearby Anchuthengu, police said on Friday.

While it was not immediately known what caused the fire, eyewitnesses said an electrical short-circuit triggered the blaze at Honey Children's Hospital, said Block Health Officer.

Four members of a family including a woman and her 12-day-old newborn were found dead in their house near Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal on Tuesday evening, the police said. The woman's husband was found unconscious beside the bodies of her 40-year-old mother and 12-year-old brother.

A 22-year-old woman has been arrested from Ghaziabad's Patla town for allegedly smothering her newborn girl because she wanted a boy, police said on Monday.

People had placed candles outside the gates of the home of a Frenchwoman who authorities say has acknowledged suffocating eight of her newborn babies. Police had already sealed off the house in the northern town of Villers-au-Tertre , and authorities are conducting DNA tests to establish for sure that Dominique Cottrez and her husband Pierre-Marie ...

A French woman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday.Dominique Cottrez, a 46-year-old nurse's aide with two grown daughters, said that after a bad experience with her first pregnancy she never again wanted to see...