For a family in Uttar Pradesh, India, laying their stillborn child to rest in a cremation ground in Bareilly was a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting experience. Hitesh Kumar and his wife, Vaishali, were at the cemetery in the process of burying their own daughter’s remains when the laborer they had hired happened to unearth a pot about 3 feet underground from which they could hear the noises of a living baby.
“At one point I thought that my daughter had come alive,” Kumar told The Times of India. After realizing instead that the cries were those of a live baby girl wrapped up in a cloth inside the pot, the alarmed father contacted the authorities. “I immediately called [an] ambulance and informed [the] police to ensure that her life was saved.”
