Autopsies under way to find cause of newborns' mysterious deaths
Social affairsDec 18, 2017
Forensic doctors conducted autopsies on the bodies of four newborn babies Monday to determine what caused them to die successively at a local university hospital in an 81-minute period over the weekend.The prematurely born babies were in incubators at the intensive care unit for newborns at Ewha Womans University Medical Center in Mokdong, western Seoul, when they died between 9:31 p.m. and 10:53 p.m. on Saturday, police said.Families said the babies all had bloated bellies and difficulty breath