A baby girl was rescued from a bus-stand in Champua in Keonjhar district on Sunday night.
A helper of a private bus namely ‘Dhabaleswar’ that was stationed at the Champua bus-stand found the baby wrapped in a plastic bag while inspecting the wheels of the vehicle at around 9 pm.
He informed the locals as well as police about the incident. On receiving information, police reached the dpot and sent the baby girl to the Champua Sub-Divisional Hospital. The health condition of the baby was stated to be normal.
It was suspected that the mother of the baby might have fled, abandoning her at the bus-stand. Police started an operation to trace the whereabouts of the baby’s mother.