KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 — A newborn baby girl with her umbilical cord still intact was found abandoned at a garbage dump in Kampung Sungai Ara, Petaling Jaya, yesterday.
Petaling Jaya District Police chief ACP Mohamad Fakhrudin Abdul Hamid said the baby was found by a woman and her son at 7.15am, before they lodged a report at the Damansara Police station.
He said the baby, weighing 2.5 kg and was found wrapped in a piece of yellow cloth, was later taken to the Sungai Buloh Hospital for examination.
“Doctors confirmed that the baby is in stable condition,” Mohamad Fakhrudin said in a statement here today.
The baby is now warded at the paediatric ward of the hospital, and the case is being investigated under Section 317 of the Penal Code.
— Bernama
