Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/02/28
By: Huang Hsu-sheng and Flor Wang 

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) A couple from Singapore have been identified by police as persons of interest in a case in which the body of a newborn baby girl was found wrapped in a plastic bag in a kitchen waste bucket carried by a garbage truck from Taipei to Xindian in New Taipei early Tuesday, Xindian police said Thursday.

The body was discovered when an employee at a recycling company opened the plastic bag to recycle garbage collected from across Taipei in the early hours of Tuesday.

The employee immediately reported the incident to Xindian police who believe the baby girl, found with the umbilical cord and placenta intact, was disposed of shortly after her birth.

After reviewing street camera footage along the route of the garbage truck, police concluded that the baby was likely disposed of in Ximending (西門町) in central Taipei.    [FULL  STORY]