Freezer infants '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 today.

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