BUTTERWORTH: It looked like a crime scene--with 'Do not cross' tapes and a large group of policemen and curious bystanders huddled up by the roadside.
Or so they thought.
Passers-by spotted a strange object in a monsoon drain which resembled a baby's leg, stuck in five metres deep culvert at Jalan Bagan Ajam (southbound) exit on the Butterworth Outer Ring Road.
It was learnt that a member of the public alerted emergency services that a 'body of a baby' was found in a drain at 2.15pm.
Firemen arrived moments later to only find a dead cat and coincidentally, a monitor lizard, which was gnawing what’s left of the cat.
Rescue officials spent some two hours to extricate the carcass, which had its hind legs sticking out from a pile of rubbish in the drain.
A fireman met said: "Perhaps the hind leg of the cat looked like a baby's arm from afar."
V. Kalaivani, 24, who was having lunch at a restaurant nearby, was shocked to see many rushing out of the eatery to see what had happened.
"All I heard was an iguana ate a baby and was left in the drain.
"Thankfully it was not a baby as we thought earlier."