Foetus found in sewage works

GLASGOW - British police launched an inquiry yesterday after workers at a sewage treatment plant found a male foetus.

GLASGOW - British police launched an inquiry yesterday after workers at a sewage treatment plant found a male foetus.

Officers believe the foetus, at the three to four months stage, could have been in the system between two days and a week. The discovery was at the Philipshill Sewerage Works in East Kilbride.

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