Newborn baby hanging from barbed wire in a hostel rescued by students

- A newborn baby whose parents tried to kill has been rescued by students of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra state

- The baby's parents tried to throw her over the fence shortly after she was given birth to in a hostel

- According to a source, the baby's parents are students of the institution - they are both on the run, but an accomplice of the crime has been arrested

A newborn baby whose parents tried to throw over the fence has been rescued by students of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra state.

The students came out of their hostel on Friday night, March 6, and discovered a baby hanging from a barbed wire in a hostel, LIB reports.

Legit.ng gathers that the baby's placenta was still intact when her parents tried to throw her over the fence.

According to a student of the school, the baby's mother is a student of the school, and she gave birth to the baby in her boyfriend's room.

The source said the parents tried to throw the baby on a plot of land beside the hostel, adding that it was the baby's cry that attracted the students.

The baby was thereafter rushed to the hospital opposite the main gate of the school.

Investigation has revealed that the baby father's is in HND 1 and he is a student in the department of Public Administration.

He was said to have pleaded with his roommate to allow his girlfriend deliver the baby in their room so they could throw her away afterwards.

The parents are on the run but the father's roommate has been arrested by the police officers from the Oko police station.

In other news, a Danish aid worker, Anja Ringgren Lovén, whose photo went viral four years ago after she rescued a malnourished little boy in Akwa Ibom who was abandoned by his parents as they called him a witch.

The viral photo showed Anja covered in tattoos as she crouched before the little boy and fed him a bottle of water.

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The young woman shared new transformation photos of the boy who was later named Hope.

Anja who saved the boy with the help of her Nigerian husband, David Emmanuel Umem, and Nsidibe Orok, shared his new photos with the caption that read:

“Today is the 30 of January 2020, and today is exactly 4 years ago we rescued Hope. I think most people in the world has seen or heard about the famous picture of Hope and I, where I kneel down in front of his starving malnourished body to give him water."

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