- Stray dog found carrying baby outside hospital in Madhya Pradesh, India
- Video shows animal depositing the remains underneath a nearby tree
- Puppies are then shown eating parts of the remains in disturbing footage
- Police are probing how the dog got the body and are trying to identify the baby
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Police are investigating after horrifying video emerged showing a stray dog carrying the body of a newborn baby outside a hospital in India.
Shocked passersby filmed as the stray animal carried the newborn’s remains down the street near a hospital in the village of Gopalganj, in Madhya Pradesh.
Video then appears to show the dog fed parts of the baby to its puppies before police arrived and recovered the body.
Horrifying video has emerged showing a stray dog running down the street with the remains of a newborn baby in its mouth in India
Sanjay Soni, station house officer of the town police, said officers are now working to identify the baby and find out how the dog got hold of it.
It is not clear whether the infant was alive or dead when the animal found it.
‘As soon as we received the information, we reached the spot and found body of a new-born in disturbing condition,’ Soni told Asian News International.
‘The body has been sent for postmortem and an investigation is underway to identify the child,’ he added.
Doctor Arun Saraf, who works at the district hospital close to where the dog was spotted, said: ‘After the incident came to light, we started an investigation.’
It comes after another stray dog was found with a dead human baby in a similar incident, also in Madhya Pradesh, which happened last month.
In a third such incident, in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, the body of a girl who died a few hours after birth was stolen by a dog after being left wrapped up in a rug on the floor in a hospital.
Video then shows what appears to be the dog feeding the remains to its puppies. Police are now trying to identify the baby and find out how the dog got hold of its body