Dead babies 'dumped as part of Chinese tradition'

A rural tradition of abandoning dead children may have played a part in the case of the 21 babies' bodies found in a Chinese river.

A rural tradition of abandoning dead children may have played a part in the case of the 21 babies' bodies found in a Chinese river.

Police arrested two mortuary workers from the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University in Shandong province who were paid by the babies' families to dispose of the bodies.

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