Incredible: Newborn Baby Buried Alive By Parents Rescued After 8 Days In Cemetery (PHOTOS)

A newborn baby who was buried alive by his parents in a cemetery has been rescued alive after eight days.

The baby’s parents were disappointed that he was born with a cleft lip and thought it wise to get rid of him by burying him in the mountains of Guangxi province in Tian Dong County, southern China.

According to Mail Online, the little boy was discovered by a middle-aged woman identified as Lu Fenglian after she heard his cry while she was collecting herbs for Chinese medicine around the mountains filled with unmarked graves.

Out of shock, the woman initially ran to a nearby Buddhist temple for help because she believed the mountain was haunted by some evil spirits.

A 75-year-old priest at the temple identified as Zhao Shimin followed her and after listening to the sound, was convinced that it was the sound of a crying child.

The child was buried just five centimeters below the earth surface in a cardboard box and was covered in earth and soil that he seeped through the damp box.

The priest immediately alerted the attention of the police operatives in the area who dug and rescued the baby thereafter.

Police also found blankets and other items of clothing inside the box. The baby was rushed to the Tian Dong County People’s Hospital where he received emergency medical treatment.

According to one of the nurses attending to the baby, his condition on arrival at the hospital was very critical and he was kept in an incubator for several days.

He vomited thick black substance that doctors reported was dirt that he had been swallowing while underground.

Speculations  from several people have it that the baby must have survived as a result of sufficient moisture provided to him by rainwater.

Meanwhile, the cops trailed the baby’s parents who were said to be a young couple from nearby Siping Village in Ping Ma town.

They are yet to be arrested but the police have made several arrest including the baby’s grandmother and three other relatives.