Chinese Baby 'buried For Eight Days' In Graveyard Survives (PHOTO)
Chinese Baby 'buried For Eight Days' In Graveyard Survives (PHOTO) A newborn baby who was buried for eight days in a graveyard in southern Chinahas been found alive, according to local media reports. The baby boy was found after a woman picking herbs near a cemetery in China's Guangxi region heard an infant's cries coming from underground, the Nanguo Morning Post said. Spooked, the woman rushed back to her village and returned with police. Officers dug several centimetres into the ground and found a muddied cardboard box containing the wailing infant. The parents reportedly abandoned the baby, who has a cleft lip, at the cemetery on April 24. Two days later, and believing him dead, some relatives returned to bury the child. Eight days after that, he was found covered in mud and coughing up dirty water but alive. Authorities believe he survived because rainwater and oxygen seeped into his box. His condition is believed to be stable now. In China, though it i...