Police launch inquiry after dog-walker finds baby’s body
A BABY’S body has been found by a dog-walker, police said yesterday.
The baby is believed to have been about two months old, but the sex is not yet known.
The dog-walker found the body in a culvert off Carr Lane, in Kirkham, Lancashire, at about 2pm on Saturday.
Police have launched an investigation and the death is currently being treated as unexplained.
A post-mortem examination will be carried out later today to try to establish the cause of death.
Detective Superintendent Neil Esseen, of Lancashire Police, said: “We are in the early stages of this investigation, and the death of this child is at the moment unexplained.”