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Baby Elsa: Police going door-to-door in hunt for parents of abandoned siblings

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Police searching for parents of three babies abandoned in east London minutes after birth.

Baby Elsa was left in a Boots carrier bag near a footpath in Newham in January 2024 .

DNA tests established she was the sibling of two other babies, a boy and a girl, each found in very similar circumstances in 2017 and 2019 .

Police are now focusing on about 400 nearby houses.

They are contacting people they have found using the national DNA database who may share familial DNA with the children's mother.

Police describe survival of three newborns as "miraculous" and worry a fourth child might not be so fortunate.

Elsa is now just over one year old and is toddling and bright.

She was found, only an hour old , on the coldest night of the year.

Hospital staff called her Elsa after the character in the Disney film Frozen.

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