Infant buried alive and rescued

20 June 2012 12:25 pm

A five day old infant who was buried alive by his own mother was rescued in Vavuniya,  the police said.

The mother of the infant had lost her husband during the war and she has a seven year old daughter from that marriage according to reports . The vigilant parents of the mother and neighbors who had seen something suspicious were able to rescue the infant the Police said.

According to people living in the vicinity the mother of the baby was chased away from her ancestral home after they found that the mother was pregnant  out of wedlock.

However, she gave birth to a healthy male child and came back to her ancestral home where she decided to bury the child alive.( Romesh Madushanka)