Workers carrying out sewer cleaning works found an approximately four-month-old foetus.
The grim discovery occurred around 09:00 this Thursday at the Chaussée de Mons and Boulevard Aristide Briand junction. According to an anonymous source, it was workers from a Vivaqua subcontractor who found the lifeless body in a sewer collector that has been under construction for the past three weeks.
"The foetus measured around 15 cm," one source confirmed to Sudinfo. Witnesses added: "Police remained at the scene for over two hours. They went down beneath the manhole cover on the construction site and into the toilets of a nearby café."
Police were called to the scene on Thursday morning, almost at the same time as a fatal shooting that occurred on Boulevard Sylvain Dupuis, just opposite the Westland Shopping Centre in Anderlecht.
The public prosecutor's office confirmed that workers at the site indeed found a foetus, but the exact circumstances of this infanticide are under investigation. The federal police's lab came to the scene for trace analysis. The prosecutor's office also appointed a forensic doctor to perform an autopsy. No further comments or information can be given on this case for the moment.
