A newborn baby boy was rescued from a sewage pipe in a Chinese apartment building after being flushed down a toilet.
Chinese officials said residents in Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, called firefighters after hearing the two-day-old baby crying in the fourth-floor lavatory.
When attempts to pull him out failed, rescuer workers sawed away a section of the 10-centimeter diameter pipe with the baby inside.
Firefighters and doctors took the tube apart piece by piece and finally recovered the newborn.
State media said the 2.3-kilogram baby was stuck in the pipe for at least two hours.
Police are still looking for his parents.
Chinese families traditionally have a preference for sons, but babies born out of wedlock are sometimes abandoned because of social and financial pressures.
Chinese officials said residents in Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, called firefighters after hearing the two-day-old baby crying in the fourth-floor lavatory.
When attempts to pull him out failed, rescuer workers sawed away a section of the 10-centimeter diameter pipe with the baby inside.
Firefighters and doctors took the tube apart piece by piece and finally recovered the newborn.
State media said the 2.3-kilogram baby was stuck in the pipe for at least two hours.
Police are still looking for his parents.
Chinese families traditionally have a preference for sons, but babies born out of wedlock are sometimes abandoned because of social and financial pressures.
