Crime & Safety

Police: Baby Reportedly Thrown Onto Train Tracks

Officers are responding to a report of a baby thrown off a rail bridge in Kingsessing. No child has been found yet.

Philadelphia police are combing the tracks near Kingsessing and 68th streets after receiving a report that a couple threw a baby over a rail bridge onto the tracks, according to 6-ABC News.

The report says that investigators were told of a man and a woman kissing a baby, then reaching over the bridge. It is not confirmed that the baby was dropped onto the tracks, and officers have not yet recovered a child from the scene.

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