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EXCERPT: Police in India miraculously rescued a newborn baby after the child’s mother committed suicide by hanging herself while her newborn was still attached to her body by an umbilical cord. [...] The boy not only survived, but is also said to be in healthy condition in the hospital [...] Medics told local reporters that this might be the first-ever case (for documentation) of a woman who delivered a baby during/after suicidal hanging.  [...] “It is difficult to find out the exact timing of her suicide [...] But it is for sure that the baby was born because of hanging. Efforts are being made to ascertain cause behind this suicide. [The] family is clueless.”

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