Japan: Dead babies preserved in bottles found beneath a house

Tokyo: Several bodies of babies were found preserved in bottles beneath a house abandoned three years ago in Japan’s Tokyo city.

The house belonged to an obstetrician who abandoned the house three house ago was under renovation after a new buyer bought the house.

Termite exterminators uncovered three to four such bottles with bodies preserved in substance similar to formalin, some with umbilical cords still attached to the babies said Kyodo.

Police are now investigating the case, Reuters reported.