Newborn Baby Buried Alive By Parents Rescued After 8 Days In Cementary

A newborn baby has been found alive after being buried for eight days in a cemetery in the mountains of Guangxi province in southern China. The baby boy was abandoned by his parents in Tian Dong County after being born with a cleft lip.

He was miraculously discovered after a middle-aged woman heard his crying while she was collecting herbs for Chinese medicine.

The woman, named Lu Fenglian, was shocked to hear the crying sounds and – believing the mountain to be haunted – ran to a Buddhist temple for help.

Fenglian, a regular volunteer at the Siping Temple, soon enlisted the help of a priest and returned to the scene, in the Feng Long Ridge area.

The 75-year-old priest, Zhao Shimin, realised that the crying was in fact a baby and was coming from underground in an area where there are a number of unmarked graves.

He immediately called the police who arrived on scene and located the baby.

The child was buried just five centimetres below the surface in a cardboard box, and was covered in earth and soil that he seeped through the damp box.

Police also found blankets and other items of clothing inside the box.

The baby was rushed to the Tian Dong County People’s Hospital where he received emergency medical treatment.

His carer, named Aunty Liu, said that when the baby arrived at the hospital he was in a very bad condition and he had to be kept in an incubator for several days.

Shockingly, as doctors cleaned the dirt off the baby’s body he coughed up a thick black substance that doctors reported was dirt that he had been swallowing while underground.

Sources have suggested that the baby was able to survive because rainwater provided him with sufficient moisture.

After several days of medical attention his condition has stabilised enough for him to be removed from the incubator.

The parents of the baby have been traced following the discovery, and have been revealed to be a young couple from nearby Siping Village in Ping Ma town.

The Public Security Bureau has arrested several people in connection with the discovery, including the baby’s grandmother and three other relatives.

However the Bureau has not arrested the parents – who also have a daughter – due a reported ‘lack of evidence’.

Source: DailyMail