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BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) - Thirty plastic bags stuffed with tiny skulls and other body parts have been found in an abandoned well in eastern India, officials said Monday. Police believe they may be aborted female fetuses or newborn girls killed because their families wanted boys.
Investigators suspect a nearby medical clinic performed the abortions and possibly killed infants at the parents' request because they were female, although authorities have yet to conclusively determine the sex of the babies, said Yogesh Bahadur Khurania, a senior police official in the eastern state of Orissa.
He said police were also still trying to determine how many babies or fetuses had been dumped in the well near the Krishna Clinic in Nayagarh. The CNN-IBN television news channel said authorities believe as many as 37 had been found.
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