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| Baby's body found at waste site | Baby's body found at waste site |
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| The body of a newborn baby boy has been discovered in a black bin liner at a Lincolnshire waste site. | |
| The baby's body was wrapped in a heavily bloodstained cloth, at the Greenstar Recycling Plant in Addlethorpe, on Thursday morning. | |
| A worker checking for glass in material brought to the site for recycling made the find, said police. | A worker checking for glass in material brought to the site for recycling made the find, said police. |
| A search is now on to trace the mother. Police believe the mother could be in urgent need of medical help. | |
| Detectives believe the baby, who was white, died after a traumatic birth. | |
| National search | |
| They are working on the possibility that the mother could have come from anywhere in the country. | |
| The baby was not still-born and a post-mortem examination is being held to discover how he died. | |
| It is understood the infant suffered a number of injuries after death as a result of being put in the back of a dustcart. | |
| A source close to the investigation said: "We need to talk to the baby's mother. She is potentially very, very ill. | |
| "The way it looks is that there has been a traumatic birth and the baby has died shortly afterwards from the trauma of the birth. | |
| "We need to find the mother because her life could be in danger. | |
| "We are doing checks with hospitals and doctors' surgeries as well as with the NHS nationally because the mother could potentially come from anywhere." | |
| Officers said they would release further details during the afternoon. | Officers said they would release further details during the afternoon. |
| The recycling site is on an industrial estate near Skegness an handles both commercial and local authority waste. | |
| Greenstar said it had no comment at this time. |