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Baby dies after being found in dustbin
Netcare 911 responded to reports of a person unconscious on Heliodor Street in Laudium, Tshwane on Wednesday morning.
GAUTENG.- It is said that when medics arrived on scene, they found members of the public doing CPR on an infant and Netcare 911 Emergency Care Practitioners immediately took over resuscitation efforts.
A statement said that according to the public on scene, the baby, estimated to be approximately 6-days-old, wrapped in clothes placed in a plastic bag, was found by a man rumbling through a dustbin. Despite best efforts of paramedics on scene, the babies condition rapidly deteriorated and was sadly declared deceased a short while later.
Circumstances leading up to the baby being found in the dustbin, will be investigated by the SAPS who were on scene.
