A stray dog in Lebanon has been found carrying an abandoned baby girl in a black trash bag left outside a government building, according to media reports.
The dog was holding the bag in its mouth when a passerby heard screams coming from inside, the National reported. The child was taken to the Islamic hospital in the city of Tripoli, in the north of the country, before being transferred to another medical establishment.
Footage of the girl shows her with what appear to be bruises and abrasions to her face and body.
Social media users condemned the abandonment of the baby.
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“The dog has a lot more humanity, kindness, cunning and intelligence than some satanic mutants in human form,” one user tweeted.
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Ghassan Rifi, a journalist in Lebanon, wrote that the authorities have not found who left the baby.
“It was unclear whether the ‘wild woman’ who dumped the child and fled to an unknown destination intended to dump her in the area so that the dogs would finish her off and eat her corpse or draw attention to her,” he wrote.
The child was reportedly recovering in hospital.
The outlet said there have been several incidents of child abuse in Lebanon in recent weeks.
Lynn Talib, 6, died in the northern region of Miniyeh earlier this month. Forensic reports revealed that she had been sexually assaulted before her death.