A newborn girl was critically ill in hospital Sunday after being discovered abandoned on the shelf of a supermarket in Hong Kong, dpa reported.
The baby with her umbilical cord still attached was found by a supermarket employee wrapped in newspaper and plastic bags Saturday afternoon on a shelf near the supermarket's fruit section.
The baby was rushed to hospital from the supermarket in the city's North Point district and was in critical condition Sunday, doctors said.
A police spokesman said officers had carried out door-to-door inquiries in the area and issued a citywide appeal for the mother or relatives of the infant to contact them.
Police described the baby as Asian rather than Chinese, suggesting she might be an unwanted child born to one of the more than 200,000 women from the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand who work as live-in domestic helpers in Hong Kong.
Two teenage girls have been arrested in recent years in Hong Kong for throwing newborns to their deaths from the bathroom windows of high-rise apartment blocks.