Chennai, India: In an absolute twist of fate, a passerby in Tamil Nadu’s Hosur district rescued a newborn who was dumped into a set of bushes.

Aghast at the sight of an infant lying helpless on the side of the road, the passerby rushed to the child to a nearby hospital where he is currently being kept under observation by the hospital staff, reports the timesnownews.com. 

While a police complaint has been filed and investigations are being made to ascertain the identity of the child, law enforcement agencies have failed to track down the parents who dumped their child behind a set of bushes on the side of a road.

A woman, who heard the baby’s wails from behind the bushes in Achettipalli on Wednesday, said that when she brought him to the hospital, he had been bitten by ants all over his body. ‘I want to adopt him,’ said the woman, Mutugamma, who was part of the initial rescue team.

Police officials with the Banaswadi station in Bengaluru found a newborn baby girl abandoned outside a house near Ramaiah Layout in June this year. The child was then taken to a nearby hospital where it was treated by doctors who confirmed that she was born barely three hours before she was brought in by the police.

On Independence Day this year, locals in Chennai’s Valasaravakkam rescued a newborn child who was stuck in a storm drain. After the child was rescued and police were informed, doctors at the Egmore Hospital kept him in the incubator. A senior police official had told media reporters that the child had his umbilical cord intact when it was rescued from the storm drain.