Child found dead in garbage bin

Cleaners emptying large garbage bins in Saudi Arabia stumbled across the body of a five-year-old boy who was apparently murdered and dumped in the bin, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

 

Police called to the scene in the northeastern town of Tabuk plucked out the body of the boy, who had been reported missing for most of the day, Okaz Arabic language daily said.

 

“We found stab wounds in the child’s neck and we are conducting investigation about the crime,” it quoted a police source as saying.