Heart-stopping moment an injured toddler is found inside a suitcase abandoned in the street as cops hunt parents

Authorities are searching for the parents of a two-year-old boy who was abandoned in a suitcase in the central Mexico city of Puebla.

The disturbing discovery took place Tuesday morning when a woman walking in La Loma neighborhood heard the cries of a child. 

The woman approached the suitcase and found the toddler covered in water.

While changing the boy's clothes, cop noticed that he showed signs that he had been recently beaten.

'He had visible injuries on his face,' officer Betsabé Zallas told Mega Noticias.

Puebla police officer Betsabé Zallas holds a two-year-old boy who was found abandoned in a suitcase left on a sidewalk Tuesday. The child had bruises on his face and was treated for hypothermia and malnutrition. Authorities are searching for this parents

A two-year-old boy was found inside a suitcase in the Puebla neighborhood of La Loma on Tuesday after a resident heard the child's cries

Authorities in the central Mexican city of Puebla, the capital of Puebla state, are searching for the parents of a two-year-old boy who was found in a suitcase Tuesday. The toddler is the fourth child abandoned in the streets of the state of Puebla this year

'Likewise, my job was to protect the minor, to keep him warm so that he could (be taken) to police cruiser to determine the minor's diagnosis.'

Paramedics arrived on the scene and found him to be in good health and then rushed him to North General Hospital, where doctors diagnosed and treated him for hypothermia, malnutrition and numbness in his body, ABC Noticias reported.

The child was discharged later in the day and remains under the custody of the National System for Integral Family Development, which is caring for him while police search for his family.

Gaby Bonilla, who oversees the social assistance agency, revealed on her X account that she met with the boy on Wednesday.

'I am pleased to share that his health is favorable and he will recover very soon,' she said.

Officer Betsabé Zallas (left) and her partner responded to a 911 call of a toddler abandoned in a suitcase on a street in the central Mexico municipality of Puebla on Tuesday. Zallas told Mega Noticias that she ensured that the two-year-old boy was warm and placed him in their cruiser until paramedics arrived on the scene and rushed him to a hospital

National System for Integral Family Development director, Gaby Bonilla, met with the boy on Wednesday and said that he is in good health

At least three other children have been abandoned by their parents in the state of Puebla this year.

Neighbors discovered a 30-week-old baby girl dumped in a ditch and nearly covered in dirt at a property in the Bosques de Manzana, a neighborhood in Puebla, on March 27.

Motorist traveling on the Azumbilla-Tlacotepec highway in the city of Vicente Guerrero found a baby boy abandoned on the side of a road on March 20.

A newborn girl was abandoned by an elderly woman at a tortilla shop in the municipality of Acatlán on February 24.