By Bilal Kuchay for Caters News
A newborn baby girl was rescued from a garbage vat, swarmed by ants in India in a suspected case of parents abandoning their baby because it was not a boy.
The infant is being taken care by medical staff of a government run hospital in Bhopal in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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The as yet unnamed baby was found in a polybag by a tea stall owner Dheeraj Rathore in the early hours of Saturday been "eaten" by ants.
Rathore said: "I was passing through the bin when I heard the cries of a baby.