Five babies a day left at Chinese city's 'baby hatch'

BEIJING: More than 260 unwanted children, most of them babies, have been abandoned in a Chinese "safe haven" in just over six weeks - more than five a day - since it opened in late January, authorities said.

All of those abandoned suffered from illnesses including cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome and congenital heart disease, and 67 percent of them were less than a year old, the Bureau of Civil Affairs of Guangzhou Municipality said.