Five newborns found in stolen car

CHINA: Chinese police were pleading with the public Wednesday for any information about five newborn babies discovered in the back of a stolen car, an official said.

The three boys and two girls, all about 10 days old, were found in the backseat of a black four-door sedan when police stopped the car at a toll booth in north China’s Hebei province on Sunday, said Zhang Lianying, the director of Nangong city’s Highway Patrol.

Police have confirmed the car was stolen two weeks ago in Shanghai, 1,100 kilometers south of Nangong, Zhang said. But they have so far been unable to identify any of the babies, he said.

The Beijing Youth Daily and several other papers published photos Wednesday of the five babies swaddled in blankets and lying close to each other on a bed with numbers above their heads.

The Youth Daily ran a banner headline above the pictures asking “Does anyone know the Moms and Dads of these five babies?” and included the number of a hot line in Nangong to call.

Beijing, Wednesday, AP