Two held over dead Chinese babies

[Sharon]

Two mortuary workers have been arrested after the bodies of 21 babies, some with hospital identification tags around their tiny ankles, washed ashore on a river in eastern China.

The babies -- at least one of whom was stuffed in a yellow plastic bag marked "medical waste" -- were strewn along a dirt riverbank near a highway overpass. A few wore diapers. All were caked in mud.

Some of the babies appeared several months old, while the official Xinhua News Agency said the bodies included fetuses.

Local residents and firefighters recovered the bodies on Monday after they were discovered under a bridge spanning the Guangfu River on the outskirts of Jining in Shandong province.

Interviews with residents who made the grisly find were broadcast on the Web site of the Shandong Broadcasting Company.

One said he thought a body was a toy, but then he spotted several others. Another expressed concern because the river is a source of drinking water for villagers living nearby.

Hospital ID tags on eight of the babies helped investigators trace them back to the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, Xinhua reported.

Hospital mortuary workers Zhu Zhenyu and Wang Zhijun were reportedly sacked and taken away by police.

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oh days.

[-:Undertaker:-]

They could very well be females, theres a terrible attitude in China were the female babies are just thrown away or even killed because of the CPC policy on population.

[Catzsy]

They could very well be females, theres a terrible attitude in China were the female babies are just thrown away or even killed because of the CPC policy on population.

The people arrested were mortuary workers so it looks like they didn't use the proper procedure. I don't think they kill babies at hospitals.

[Sharon]

I don't think they can :S

[Wig44.]

They need a male child to earn money and provide security for the family, and thus will drown female babies due to the policy on children.

[Grig]

They need a male child to earn money and provide security for the family, and thus will drown female babies due to the policy on children.

You can say that. But it is ILLEGAL for hospitals to assist in this or do this. This was done in an official government hospital. It is diguisting, however, you cannot claim they were all girls as we don't know nor do we know why they were killed- we can speculate however much we want, but what is crucial here was that an illegal act had taken place.