CHINA (CCTV/CNN) - Firefighters in east China's Zhejiang Province rescued a newborn infant from sewage pipe on Saturday afternoon.
WSMV, 27 May 2013
The infant was found in the toilet sewage pipe in a residential building in the city of Jinhua.
Residents in the building reported to firefighting department that they heard baby crying in the toilet of the fourth floor.
Local firefighters soon rushed to the site to rescue the infant, who was later found, a newborn boy with his placenta uncut.
Firefighters were called on to rescue a newborn baby trapped in a sewer pipe in China on Saturday. (Source: CCTV/CNN)
After cutting down the sewage pipe, firefighters sent the infant, still covered by the pipe, to the nearest Pujiang County Hospital where they took away the pipe piece by piece with the help of doctors, using a saw and pincer pliers.
The rescue operation took almost an hour. And the infant is now in stable condition.
Police are investigating the case, yet the infant's parents had failed to show up by Monday afternoon.
Copyright 2013 CCTV
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Baby in Pipe
Man doesnt this make you really angry how people can do these sort of cruel things?
I do hope the baby survives without long lasting effects and they find a good home for it.
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