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AHMADABAD, India (AP) — A newborn baby girl fell through the toilet
in a moving train and onto the tracks moments after her mother
prematurely gave birth, surviving nearly two hours before being found,
relatives said Thursday.
The child's mother, who uses the single
name Bhuri, was traveling with relatives on an overnight train when she
went to the bathroom shortly before midnight Tuesday and unexpectedly
gave birth to a baby girl, said Arjun Kumar, her brother-in-law.
"Later, she fell unconscious and the baby fell through the toilet," he continued. "Two stations later, we knocked at the door."
Bhuri opened the door, soaked in blood.
"When we asked her about what happened, she said the baby had fallen through onto the tracks," Kumar said.
Toilets
on Indian trains usually have holes that open directly onto the tracks,
and there were no indications Thursday that authorities doubted Bhuri's
story or planned to investigate the incident.
Kumar said that
after finding Bhuri, relatives pulled the train's emergency brake and
told railway officials what had happened. A search was quickly
organized, and guards at one of the stations the train had passed soon
found the baby.
"She was on the rail track for almost 1 1/2 to
two hours," said Dr. Gautam Jain, a pediatrician at Rajasthan Hospital
in Ahmadabad, in the western state of Gujarat, where the baby and
mother were taken.
The child, who has not yet been named, was
eight to 10 weeks premature and weighed only 3.22 pounds, Jain said.
She had a low heart rate and body temperature.
"We do not expect such children to survive," Jain said.
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