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Vietnam finds baby's body in air passenger's bag
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-11 11:35

HANOI - Vietnamese airport security officers found the body of a newborn girl stuffed into the suitcase of a passenger boarding a domestic flight, a state-run newspaper reported on Thursday.

The body of the one-day-old girl was detected by a security scanner at Tan Son Nhat airport in baggage belonging to a Vietnamese man who was en route to Hanoi from Ho Chi Minh City, the Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper said.

The 20-year-old passenger told police the girl was a daughter of his relative who asked him to take the body back to his home in the northern region for burial.

Security officials could not be reached for comment on the incident, which the paper said took place late on Wednesday, and it was not immediately clear what charges the passenger might face.