A homeless woman (20) gave birth to a child in Nuremberg - outdoors at minus 15 degrees.
The police found the two after an emergency call at a subway station.
Nuremberg
- Several strips of the federal and state police * were on Friday morning around 5 a.m. at the Nuremberg * city ditch.
The reason was a message from the integrated control center *: a woman would give birth outdoors.
At minus 15 degrees.
"We sent two patrols to search, there were also colleagues from the state police on the way," said a spokesman for the Nuremberg police.
Around 5 o'clock one of the strips was successful in the search.
She found the mother, a 20-year-old homeless person, the newborn and a companion near a subway station.
Apparently the companion had made the emergency call, according to a police spokesman.
In a sleeping bag on a ventilation grille, the 20-year-old woman tried to protect herself and her baby from the freezing cold of minus 15 degrees.
Childbirth at minus 15 degrees: homeless (20) gives birth to "little Nuremberg woman"
An ambulance took mother and daughter to hospital.
How the two are doing was initially unclear.
According to the rescue coordination center, however, no complications were known.
Why the young woman did not go to hospital before giving birth is an open question.
The sex of the newborn is known for this: “We found a little woman from Nuremberg,” said the police spokesman.
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