Winnipeg police were rushing to track down the woman who gave birth to a baby in an east-end Winnipeg hotel Thursday, then abandoned the infant in a stairwell.
Officers and paramedics were called to the Club Regent Casino Hotel in the 1400 block of Regent Avenue in Transcona just before 3 pm on Thursday, “concerning a report of an infant child located unattended” according to a police news release.
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The release says the child was taken to hospital in an ambulance but gave no information the child’s condition, age or gender.
But sources tell Global News the child was a newborn, located in a stairwell: and that officers believe the person who called to report the presence of the baby was actually the mother but she hasn’t yet been located.
Witnesses told Global News paramedics arrived and entered the hotel with a stretcher, but took the stretcher away and later emerged with a bundle carried on the shoulder of one paramedic. Sources say the child is healthy.
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