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Incredible moment a newborn baby is rescued after being BURIED ALIVE on a farm in India
THIS is the heartbreaking moment an abandoned newborn baby was rescued after being buried ALIVE on a farm in India.
Video footage shows stunned villagers panicking upon seeing the infant, caked in mud and motionless among stones, roots and dirt.
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It's not clear when the baby was dumped to die in a field in Khatima, Uttarakhand.
But, incredibly, the child was discovered by a labourer who spotted its face poking out while working in the fields.
Its face was caked in mud, and its hair and body also had a layer of grime after being dumped in the shallow grave.
The infant's right knee and foot can be seen in the upsetting video, along with its right arm.
At first, the baby doesn't seem to be moving, let alone be alive.
The next part of the video shows men and women crowded around the infant, swaddling it in cloth for protection and warmth.
The abandoned infant's mouth was wiped as people appeared to frantically shout instructions at each other.
The footage shows a man, other locals and the police working frantically to pull the baby out - saving its life.
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The infant was rushed to a hospital to receive treatment and is now said to be in a stable condition.
It's the latest in a series of similar death-defying ordeals for newborns in India.
In October 2019 a tiny newborn girl was found alive after being buried in a shallow grave - allegedly by her parents who were hoping for a boy.
The three-day-old was found inside a sealed clay pot, wrapped in cloth and buried just three feet beneath the earth at a village crematorium in Northern India.
The little girl - dubbed a "fighter" by docs - was discovered by labourers who were digging a grave for another couple whose daughter had been stillborn.
And in 2017 a newborn baby girl miraculously survived being thrown into a thorny bush by her parents and left for dead.
The little girl was found lying under the plant and covered in scratches in the city of Una in western India's Gujurat state.
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Also, a three-week-old baby girl buried alive for at least three hours miraculously survived after locals heard her faint cries from beneath the earth.
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Residents in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, heard the whimpers of the infant one evening in January 2019 as temperatures dropped to just 3C.
They quickly dug her out and rushed her to a government-run hospital.
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