Police launch inquiry after dog-walker finds baby’s body

A BABY’S body has been found by a dog-walker, police said yesterday.

The baby is believed to have been about two months old, but the sex is not yet known.

The dog-walker found the body in a culvert off Carr Lane, in Kirkham, Lancashire, at about 2pm on Saturday.

Police have launched an investigation and the death is currently being treated as unexplained.

A post-mortem examination will be carried out later today to try to establish the cause of death.

Detective Superintendent Neil Esseen, of Lancashire Police, said: “We are in the early stages of this investigation, and the death of this child is at the moment unexplained.”