Police in Bangladesh have recovered two bodies of newborns from a garbage pile close to Dhaka University’s Amar Ekushey Hall in the capital city, media reports said on Saturday.

The bodies were found in the pile in front of the Anwar Pasha building on Friday night, Bachchu Mia, chief of the Dhaka Medical College police outpost, told bdnews24.

The bodies were found wrapped in lungi (a traditional Bangladeshi dress worn by men).

“The bodies of two dead newborns were recovered after a call came in to [the 999 emergency line. After legal processing, the bodies of the two newborns were brought to the morgue at the Emergency Department at Dhaka Medical College Hospital," Bachchu Mia said.