The corpse of a baby reported to be a day old has been found in a farmland in Tayi village, Minna, Niger, according to the Police Command in Niger.
This was disclosed to the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Tuesday by SP Waisu Abiodun, the Police Public Relations Officer in Niger.
According to Abiodun, the GRA Police Division was notified on August 9 that a lifeless body of “about a day-old child was found in a farmland in Tayi village, Minna”.
He stated that welfare representatives from the state’s Chanchaga Local Government Area were invited to the scene by police operatives from the GRA Division.
Additionally, he mentioned that a medical practitioner was brought in by the welfare officials to examine the infant and confirmed it dead.
He said that the incident was under investigation and the community was helping to identify and apprehend the offender.
Meanwhile, an unidentified local resident told NAN that the child had to have been abandoned by a woman who became pregnant outside of marriage.
“The person must have abandoned the baby while still alive, but due to severe exposure to cold, the baby died, this is the first time we are seeing this type of such occurrence in our area,” he said.
NAN
