Airport staff in Mauritius have found a newborn baby boy abandoned in the rubbish bin toilet of a plane’s toilet.
The Air Mauritius plane, which arrived from Madagascar, landed at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport on January 1, 2021.
Airport officers made the discovery when they screened the plane for a routine customs check, and noticed that there was blood-stained toilet paper, and rushed the baby to a public hospital for treatment.
Following questioning of passengers by the airport police, a 20-year-old woman from Madagascar, suspected of having given birth on the flight, was arrested.
The woman suspected of being the child’s mother, who initially denied the boy was hers, was made to undergo a medical examination which confirmed that she had just given birth, and thereafter placed under police surveillance at the hospital.
The Malagasy woman, who arrived in Mauritius on a two-year work permit, will be questioned after her released from the hospital and charged with abandoning a newborn.
Both mother and child are doing well, according to report.
-BBC-
