An Indian woman has given birth to a child at a toilet of the central railway station in the Bangladesh capital.
The incident was reported Monday midnight at Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka.
The woman, Roksana Akter, 30, and the newborn boy have been admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), said police.
“The woman told her husband was one Abdul, a Bangladeshi, who is yet to be traced. The mother and the child were taken to the DMCH around 2:15pm. Roksana is an Indian and she speaks Hindi,” Constable Fazlu Mia of the railway police (GRP) told Bangla Tribune.
He said Roksana entered Bangladesh with her husband through Jessore, where they stayed at a relative’s place and also consulted with a doctor there.
“She then came to Dhaka to travel to Chandpur, her husband’s hometown. But since then lost track of her husband, when the police took her custody and she gave birth at the police station’s toilet,” said Mia.
DMCH authorities confirmed that the mother and child were fine.
“They are both doing fine,” DMCH Deputy Director Shah Alam Talukder told the media on Tuesday.