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As police estimate that a leg recently discovered at a public recycling facility in Incheon is highly likely to be medical waste, it has been revealed that a nursing hospital informed the police of this fact. According to police sources on the 18th, an official from a nursing hospital in Incheon stated to the police that day, "It is presumed that the human leg found at the Household Resource Recovery Center in Songdo-dong, Incheon on the 10th was disposed of by our hospital." It is reported that the hospital had amputated the leg of an elderly woman in her 80s undergoing treatment after necrosis occurred and disposed of it as medical waste; however, a cleaning staff member mistook it for a mannequin and separated it for recyclable waste. The police are expected to investigate the specific circumstances of the disposal based on statements from hospital officials and other evidence. Under the current Waste Management Act, medical waste, including human tissue, is required to be placed in dedicated containers and collected and transported separately from other waste. Consequently, the police believe it is highly likely that the discovered leg is a body part of a patient currently receiving treatment at the hospital and have requested an urgent DNA analysis from the National Forensic Service. A police official stated, "We plan to compare the discovered body part with the patient's genetic information (DNA)," adding, "We cannot disclose the specific circumstances leading to the DNA comparison." Earlier, around 2:28 PM on the 10th, an employee sorting recyclable materials at the Southern Regional Household Resource Recovery Center in Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, discovered a human leg. Based on the analysis results from the National Forensic Service, the police have been conducting an investigation, believing the leg belongs to an adult approximately 161 to 165 cm tall. Audio | AI Anchor Production | Lee Seon #ThisNews ▶ Original Article : https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0545_202606... ▶ Send a Tip : https://mj.ytn.co.kr/mj/mj_write.php ▣ Subscribe to YTN YouTube Channel : http://goo.gl/Ytb5SZ ⓒ YTN Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, and use of AI data are prohibited.