Indian student gives birth on aircraft, attempting to abandon

An Indian medical student gave birth to a baby on board an aircraft from Belarus to India and then tried to abandon it, reported the local daily The Times of India Thursday.

The 24-year-old Amandeep Mann, a resident of Hoshiarpur in Punjab who is studying medicine at Minsk, the capital of Belarus, delivered the baby on board Turkmenistan Airlines' flight to the northern Indian city of Amritsar Tuesday.

She was caught by police on being alerted by the airline's staff that she tried to escape after abandoning the newborn in the aircraft's washroom.

Both mother and child have been admitted in a private hospital. Mann's marital status is not clear, the report said.

Source: Xinhua