Baby due for cremation found alive at funeral home

A month-old baby boy in Hefei, Anhui province, who was sent by a hospital to a funeral home for cremation, was found to be alive on Wednesday.

The child has been returned to Anhui Provincial Children's Hospital, where healthcare workers were trying to save him on Thursday. The infant, who has a congenital abnormality and other life-threatening illnesses, had been given up by his parents at the hospital. On Monday, he was pronounced dead.

Two days later, a nursing assistant sent the baby, along with the bodies of two other children, to the funeral home.