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1 February 2011
Last updated at 07:39 ET
Police in Tanzania are investigating the discovery of a mass grave in Dar es Salaam containing the bodies of 10 newborn babies.
Dar es Salaam residents found them in a shallow pit about 100m from Mwananyamala hospital on Monday.
One of the corpses was wrapped in a sheet belonging to the hospital.
The BBC's Hassan Mhelela in Dar es Salaam says this is the first discovery of its kind and has shocked many people in Tanzania's main city.
Nearly everyone is talking about it - and it is dominating talk shows on the radio, our reporter says.
The police have set up a special committee to deal with the inquiry.
The babies are reported to have been aged between one day and seven days old.
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Dar es Salaam residents found them in a shallow pit about 100m from Mwananyamala hospital on Monday.
One of the corpses was wrapped in a sheet belonging to the hospital.
The BBC's Hassan Mhelela in Dar es Salaam says this is the first discovery of its kind and has shocked many people in Tanzania's main city.
Nearly everyone is talking about it - and it is dominating talk shows on the radio, our reporter says.
The police have set up a special committee to deal with the inquiry.
The babies are reported to have been aged between one day and seven days old.
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