A newborn baby girl was found dead in the back of an Ohio garbage truck on Thursday, the umbilical cord still attached.

Plain City Police said the the city’s contracted waste management company found the infant in the back of the truck Thursday afternoon on Bluestem Lane.

The baby was taken to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office for an autopsy, but preliminary results did not immediately reveal a cause of death, police said on Friday.

A DNA analysis is being conducted at the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

“At this time, we are focused on identifying the infant and determining what led to the infant’s death, but we are also concerned about the health of the mother due to the strong potential that the baby was born without professional healthcare assistance,” police said in a statement.

The police department also noted that Ohio has a safe haven law allowing parents to surrender infants up to 30 days old to qualified law enforcement or medical workers without consequences.

Police asked anyone with any information to call them at 614-873-2921

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