Police stop three men with dead fetus in car near Nashville

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The Millersville, Tenn., police chief said three Muslim men who transported a dead fetus in their car and were briefly stopped Wednesday on an unrelated registration issue, had legitimate documentation with them.

Millersville Police Chief David Hindman said the men were transporting the 15-week-old fetus, whose mother had a miscarriage at a Bowling Green, Ky., hospital..

“The men had a coroner’s provisional death certificate with them, a burial transit permit,” Hindman said. “The mother sadly had a miscarriage and lost her baby. The father, according to the custom of their religion, decided to bury their child theirself.”

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