Sreet dog finds abandoned newborn

A one-day old baby girl wrapped in a polythene bag and cloths was rescued when a stray dog was pulling on the bag on the Old Airport runway in the capital yesterday.

The newborn was bleeding from her nose, face and two left hand fingers, and was rushed to Dhaka Shishu Hospital at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. She was later shifted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Tania Begum, a resident of the area who rushed the baby to the hospital, said she went to the scene hearing noise and found the baby already rescued by some locals. Quoting the children playing there, she said when the dog was pulling on the bag, the baby cried out and the kids informed locals of the incident.

Doctors said the baby might have sustained injuries from dog bites.

Kafrul police said they were yet to find how the baby was abandoned on the runway.