**Sambalpur:** The infant, who was rescued from a basket floating in a water body on Saturday afternoon, died in the Sambalpur Sadar Hospital during treatment.
Notably, the newly born baby boy was spotted by some local people wrapped in a clot in a basket floating in a canal near Gopalapali in Sambalpur district. They immediately admitted him to the Sick Newborn Care Units (SNCU) of the Sambalpur Sadar Hospital who was in a critical condition.
The baby breathed its last during the treatment on Saturday evening.