• Residents at the canal
The baby which still had his placenta intact was believed to have been dumped their shortly after delivery in the early hours of the day had died before daybreak.
As at 9.00 am when a huge crowd had massed at the scene to catch a glimpse of the dead baby, the body had become swollen.
It was a rain of curses in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital yesterday where an anonymous mother dumped a day-old baby inside a canal located at Ijigbo-Atikankan junction.
The baby which still had his placenta intact was believed to have been dumped their shortly after delivery in the early hours of the day had died before daybreak.
As at 9.00 am when a huge crowd had massed at the scene to catch a glimpse of the dead baby, the body had become swollen.