Workers cleaning sewage plants in Malaysia are sometimes forced to stumble upon awful, gut churning finds.
Among them are foetuses.
According to a report in Kosmo Ahad, translated by The Star, more than 10 foetuses have been found within a year, Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) Sdn Bhd said.
In the report, its communications manager Shahrul Nizam Sulaiman related an incident in which a sewage maintenance workers discovered a two-month-old foetus stuck to a wall at the plant.
In all these cases, he said, the workers would be left traumatised.
The report quoted Shahrul Nizam as saying that similar cases have happened at centralised plants including smaller plants that connect to housing areas. IWK maintains about 6,000 treatment plants.
“Most of those foetuses were not fully formed. If there was a foetus with complete limbs, its body was often bruised and full of scratches.
“Some found only the head, or an arm or a leg,” he said adding that the foetuses would get stuck along a pipe.
