Newborn baby’s body parts found in Ramtha graveyard

AMMAN — Officials on Thursday said that the body parts of a newly-born baby, found in a graveyard in Ramtha earlier in the day, appear to have been disposed of by a hospital.   

A man found what are thought to be a baby’s arm and leg wrapped in a hospital plastic bag inside a graveyard and alerted the authorities, a senior police official said. 

The criminal prosecutor and forensic investigators were called to the scene and concluded that the limbs “had been surgically removed” and that “the bags belonged to a local hospital”, according to police and medical sources.

An autopsy conducted at Irbid National Institute of Forensic Medicine indicated that the body parts “belonged to a newborn child and that they had been surgically removed”, a senior medical source said.

“The limbs examined are from a newborn baby and we confirmed that the bags came from the hospital. It seems like the body parts were not buried properly, which is why they were found,” the medical official told The Jordan Times.

Police Spokesperson Lt. Col. Amer Sartawi told The Jordan Times that the “case was closed and there is no indication of foul play”.