Four barrels containing human embryos have been discovered in a remote forest gully in Russia’s Urals, police said on Monday.
Local residents came across the plastic barrels in the woods in the Sverdlovsk region, local police spokesman Valery Gorelykh said.
The barrels were labeled with what police believe were registration numbers of the mothers and the hospital units, Gorelykh said.
Police have launched an investigation into the discovery. Regional police chief Mikhail Borodin has taken the investigation under his personal control, Gorelykh said.
“Police have been carrying out checks at all nearby hospitals where this horrible load could have originated from,” he added.