Durban police have arrested an 18-year-old woman accused of aborting a foetus and flushing the remains down a toilet.
|||Durban - A teenager was arrested for allegedly concealing the seven-month-old foetus she aborted in KwaMashu, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday.
The 18-year-old woman was arrested on Wednesday, Captain Thulani Zwane said.
Police were called to her home after it was suspected that she flushed the foetus down the toilet.
The foetus was found after police broke the toilet open.
The teenager was taken to hospital, where she was under police guard.
Sapa