Story highlights Female infanticide continues to be a pervasive problem in IndiaRatio of male to female children increasing due to sex-selective abortionNew Delhi (CNN) Nineteen fetuses were found buried near an unlicensed clinic by police investigating a woman's death in Sangli, western India, authorities said Sunday. The doctor who ran the small clinic in Maharashtra state has since fled, police superintendent Dattatray Shinde said. Shinde told CNN that authorities had "received information that the doctor used to terminate pregnancy and bury the fetuses in the area." Another police officer told CNN that the doctor was a homeopath who did not have a surgical license. Shinde said the fetuses had been sent for medical inspection and DNA testing still had to be done to determine their sex.

Source: CNN March 06, 2017 14:16 UTC