Footage received on May 28, 2013 shows rescue workers breaking away bits of a pipe to remove a newborn baby boy stuck inside in the city of Jinhua.
Chinese firefighters have rescued a newborn baby who was lodged inside a sewage pipe below a squat toilet in an apartment building.
The abandoned baby boy was found in Jinhua city in the eastern province of Zhejiang after residents of the building called rescuers reporting the sound of infantâ„¢s cries in the fourth-floor squat lavatory.
The rescuers failed to pull the two-day-old baby out of the pipe and sawed away a section of the pipe with the baby inside.
They transferred the pipe to a hospital and pulled it apart to free the baby after nearly an hour. The whole rescue operation lasted for two hours.
The baby, whose 22-year-old mother could be charged over attempted homicide, was reportedly in stable condition.
The 2.3 kilogram boy, named Baby No 59 after the number of his hospital incubator, suffered from bruising to his face and limbs.
According to Chinaâ„¢s Dushikuaibao newspaper, the mother of the boy has admitted to giving birth to the child after police found baby toys and blood-stained toilet paper in her room.
The woman reportedly told police that she could not afford an abortion and had to deliver the child secretly in the toilet. She said she tried to catch the baby but he slipped into the sewer line.
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This article originally appeared on: Press TV