A newborn with scores of ants crawling on the body was recovered from a bush in Pakur district on Thursday morning, police said. A villager, who was on her way to a nearby river in the morning at Rasitola under Littipara police station of the district, heard a baby's cries."

When she looked around, she found the baby lying inside a bush with ants all over the body. She rushed the infant to a nearby Community Health Centre with the help of locals. The In-charge of the Health Centre, Arvind Kushal Ekka said all post-birth vaccinations have been administered and the baby was kept in the incubator.