BEIJING - A hospital in central China is under investigation for dumping eight bodies at a construction site after being unable to locate the relatives of the dead, state media reported on Friday.

The bodies of two adults and six aborted foetuses were found earlier this week in shallow graves at a building site in the city of Xiangfan in Hubei province, the China Daily said.

A bag containing three severed human limbs was also discovered, it said. Police tracked the bodies to the Xiangfan Central Hospital through a logo on a bag containing the limbs, the report added.

It quoted a hospital spokesman as saying staff at its morgue had buried the bodies on May 19 after no one claimed them and relatives could not be found.

The report said hospital morgues across China hold too many unclaimed bodies and that China has no laws regulating how to handle them.