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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown

Skeleton of baby under floor in County Durham was there for years, police say

Two police community support officers stand outside a building next to a person wearing a hazmat suit and a face mask. Behind them is scaffolding on the building and a police van
Police said the baby was ‘full term and had been undisturbed for a number of years’. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

A skeleton of a human baby found under the floorboards of a house undergoing a renovation appears to have been there “undisturbed for a number of years”, police have said.

The skeleton was found in an upstairs room at an address in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, at about 11.15am on Monday.

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