An 37-year-old mother has been arrested after a new-born baby was found dead in a plane toilet in Indonesia.
Indonesian police arrested the mother of the baby on Sunday after it was found in a plane stopped at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
Ground cleaners in Jakarta found the full-term dead baby wrapped in a plastic bag in a drawer in one of the plane’s toilets, airport police said.
The cause of death has not yet been determined.
Hani, a 37-year-old migrant worker from Cianjur, West Java, was arrested after a dead new-born baby was found in a plane toilet at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta Intl. Airport (pictured)
Hani, a 37-year-old migrant worker from Cianjur in West Java, was held soon after arriving from Bangkok at Soekarno-Hatta airport around 1am, said airport police chief Ahmad Yusef.
‘She didn’t look healthy and won’t be questioned until she is fit,’ he said.
‘The woman is now at the airport’s health centre.’
Police suspect that Hani, who had worked as a domestic helper in Abu Dhabi for four years, secretly gave birth during an Etihad flight from there to Jakarta on Saturday.
Around four hours after take-off she began bleeding.
The captain of the plane was forced to the divert the flight to Bangkok.
Passenger Francesco Calore said: ‘The woman was in economy class but then laid on a business-class seat with an oxygen mask.
Police suspect that Hani, who had worked as a domestic helper in Abu Dhabi for four years, secretly gave birth during an Etihad flight from there to Jakarta on Saturday
‘The captain then announced we should divert to Bangkok.’
A medical team boarded the plane to evacuate Hani after the Airbus A330 landed at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
The flight was held for an hour before it left Jakarta and continued with its journey without the sick woman, who flew home on a later flight.
An estimated five million Indonesians work abroad, of whom around 70 percent are female domestic helpers.