Lubango - Eight bodies of babies were found Wednesday, in a house close to the Camumuila cemetery, in the Tchioco neighborhood, on the outskirts of the city of Lubango, in Huíla, by the owner, who called the police.
The bodies, which appeared to be well preserved, were all found by the citizen and his wife, in the backyard of their house and in one of the compartments of a construction site they have in the backyard.
Speaking to the press, the owner of the residence, who requested anonymity, said that around 5:30 am, as they were about to start their daily activities, they came across the body of a baby close to a tree.
Afterwards, he explained, they saw seven other bodies spread out in one of the rooms of a construction site in the backyard and they assumed that they had been dragged by dogs.
“The situation scared us, it never happened in the neighborhood and we immediately reported it to the National Police, who promptly arrived at the scene, together with the Department of Forensic Medicine of the Criminal Investigation Service of Huíla, to remove the bodies”, he stressed. .
The Police haven't yet officially commented on the matter, but a source from the corporation said that they are investigating the case and the bodies are in the possession of forensic medicine.
The same source pointed out that the evidence points to them being stillborn, between three and nine months of gestation, unclaimed in the morgue of the Lubango Central Maternity Hospital and which deserved a collective burial, but which may have been unearthed by people or animals.
However, contacted by ANGOP, the provincial health director, Paulo Luvangamo, admitted the police's suspicion, stating that it is very likely that they were children who were stillborn in the "Irene Neto" maternity ward, with a period of five, six and nine months of gestation.
He highlighted that some families take the bodies of their loved ones for burial, but others abandon them in the morgue, which after a period of two months are handed over to the Lubango Administration for community funerals.
“At the Maternity level, we face a problem of abandonment of stillbirths, as there is a weekly average of seven to eight cases, mostly out-of-hospital births and in agreement with the municipal administration, all are buried in the Camumuila cemetery, close to the place where they were found”, he stressed.
He highlighted that it is a procedure that is already carried out with some regularity and without constraints, but this time they will have been dug up by animals, but it needs to be investigated.
It is suspected that the municipal administration technicians who carry out these burials have not observed the correct depth for burials, which can facilitate exhumation.
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