TAMPIN: A newborn baby girl with its umbilical cord still attached, passed away after being abandoned inside a toilet tank at a petrol station in Pasir Besar, Gemas, here, on Friday afternoon.
A police source said the baby girl which believed born on Thursday, found by the petrol station staff in the female washroom about 5pm.
The source said the baby was still alive when being discovered, however, passed away when on the way to a clinic nearby.
"We suspected the baby passed away due to drowning. Therefore police are hunting the suspect who abandoned the baby inside the toilet tank under Section 318 of the Penal Code for concealing a birth," the source said.
Tampin district police chief Superintendent Wooi Kooi Cheang when contacted confirmed the case.