An infant is lucky to be alive after her/his mother dumped him/her into a river in the Badagry area of Lagos State.
A passerby saw it all and went into the river to retrieve the baby.
A video of the incident has been trending for days. The clip shows the Good Samaritan carrying the baby away from the river to its bank and pressing his/her chest to drain his/her lungs of fluid.
People in the vicinity queried the young mother why she dumped her baby, but she was not coherent.
She said she was tired of life. She claimed she was also abandoned by her own mother.
Meanwhile, the passerby who saved the baby has reportedly taken the baby to the hospital for medical care.
Watch videos from the incident here.
