Freezer babies ‘alive at birth’

TWO infants whose bodies were stuffed in a freezer at an Austrian apartment complex where the remains of two other newborns were discovered entombed in cement-filled buckets were alive at birth, authorities said yesterday.

Autopsies performed on the remains of the infants whose bodies were frozen eliminated the possibility that they had been stillborn, said Peter Gruber, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office in the southern Austrian city of Graz.

“Two of the children were alive at birth,” he said.