A 19-year-old woman suspected of strangling her newborn baby is under police guard at the Matikwana Hospital in the Northern Province. Police said on Tuesday that the teenager, of Cork village near Calcutta in Bushbuckridge, gave birth at the hospital to a healthy baby girl on Sunday. Nurses found the baby dead on Monday morning and became suspicious after they found marks on the child’s neck. Police are waiting for the postmortem results to determine whether the baby was strangled.
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