Durban – Paramedics and police have responded to an incident at a northern KwaZulu-Natal shopping centre on Wednesday where a woman allegedly gave birth and then stabbed the infant to death.
IPSS Medical Rescue said its paramedics responded to the scene at a shopping centre in Sundumbili, Mandeni.
“IPSS Medical Rescue are currently on scene at a shopping centre in the Sundumbili area. A call was received after a woman had apparently given birth in the toilets at the centre.
“On arrival of paramedics a woman was found to be holding the body of a dead baby. On further investigation it was confirmed that the woman had given birth to the baby in the shopping centre toilets, but had then apparently stabbed the baby to death with an unknown object,” the IPSS statement said.
IPSS said the police had been called to the scene.
Provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Robert Netshiunda said officers were still active at the scene and he would only be able to provide details at a later stage.
Last week, The Mercury’s sister newspaper Sunday Tribune reported that a 14-year-old girl, who has allegedly dumped her 2-year-old child in an abandoned pit toilet in eMpangeni, in northern KZN, has been charged with attempted murder.
The toddler survived but was in a critical condition in hospital, the newspaper said.