Newborn baby thrown from 18th floor of flats

Police arrest a woman, 39, found bleeding in a bathroom by housemates.

KUALA LUMPUR: A newborn baby girl was found dead after she was believed to have been thrown from the 18th floor of a block of flats in Danau Kota, Setapak, here today, said police.

Wangsa Maju police chief Supt Mohamad Roy Suhaimi Sarif said the baby, with the umbilical cord still attached, was believed to have been thrown by her mother about 3am.

“Police also found a placenta 30 metres from where the baby was found,” he told a press conference.

Mohamad Roy Suhaimi said police had arrested a 39-year-old woman who was found bleeding in a bathroom by housemates on an 18th floor unit at 3.20am.

A trail of blood was found leading from the toilet to the balcony, he said.

The housemates, two couples, heard screams of pain and found the woman bleeding, he said.

He said the body of the baby was taken to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

The woman had been staying at a rented room of the unit since November last year with her five-year-old daughter and was believed to be going through a divorce, he said.

Police are trying to locate her husband to facilitate the investigation, he added.

– BERNAMA