BEIJING: A Chinese mother threw her newborn girl out of an apartment building window to the ground, where she was run over by a car yesterday.
Surveillance footage from Harbin in the northeast showed a bag containing the baby hitting the roadway outside, then crushed by a vehicle. It was aired by a Heilongjiang provincial TV station.
The mother — an 18-year-old hair salon worker surnamed Zhang — gave birth Tuesday in the bathroom of a second-floor apartment she shared with nearly 10 people, the official provincial Shenghuo Newspaper said.
In her weakened state she walked upstairs to a window between the second and third floors, and tossed out her daughter.
It was not clear whether the baby was killed hitting the ground, or by the impact of the car. She was no longer breathing by the time a security guard noticed the bloodstained bag and called police.
Zhang was held on suspicion of intentional homicide and taken to hospital for treatment, where her mother told her: “How could you do this, this is murder!” the Shenghuo paper reported.
AFP
