10 January 2014 16:30  A criminal investigation was launched
yesterday after the body of a newborn baby girl was found in a
rubbish tip in the Larnaca district. Larnaca police spokesman
Charalambos Zachariou said authorities were alerted at around
7.00am after employees at the Koshi site spotted the tiny body
on a conveyor belt in the sorting and filtering unit of the
plant. "Activities stopped immediately and the area was cordoned
off for examination."   Zachariou added that efforts are
currently underway to determine which rubbish truck transported
the body to the tip and where the collection was made. Police
are also visiting hospitals, clinics and pharmacies in the
district as the mother is believed to have recently given birth
and may have received medical attention. After conducting an
autopsy, state pathologist Eleni Antoniou confirmed the body is
of a newborn baby girl. "Based on the size and weight (just over
3kg) the baby is perhaps a week old but due to the body's
advanced state of decomposition we