Dog carries newborn's body in its jaws at M.P. hospital; probe on

Security guard retrieves newborn's body from dog at Mhow hospital; police probe incident involving missing girl and stillborn child.

A stray dog was seen clutching a dead newborn in its jaws near the toilet of a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district, prompting police to launch a probe into the matter, officials said.

A security guard managed to retrieve the body after shooing away the dog at the civil hospital in Mhow, located 25 k.m. from the district headquarters, where the incident took place on Saturday (June 8, 2025).

The child's body had been partially eaten by dogs, as per sources.

The hospital authorities and police have begun a probe into the antecedents of the newborn and the chain of events that followed, officials said on Saturday.

"As per the CCTV footage, the incident happened between 1.30 a.m. and 2 a.m.. A young girl was seen going into the toilet during this period. When we checked with staff, we found the 17-year-old girl had come here complaining of colic and had been admitted at 9 pm on Friday. We suspect the girl gave birth to a child in the toilet," Mhow civil hospital in-charge Dr. H.R. Verma told PTI.

The girl disappeared from the hospital soon after with an unidentified man, he said.

Some officials said the infant, which in all possibility was stillborn, was then taken away by a dog from the toilet area before a security guard managed to retrieve the body.