Newborn baby rescued from sewer pipe in China
04:44PM Tue 28 May, 2013
[caption id="attachment_35374" align="alignleft" width="475"] Rescue workers breaking away bits of a pipe to remove a newborn baby boy stuck inside in the city of Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang.[/caption]
Chinese firefighters free baby as police treat case as attempted murder
Newborn baby rescued from sewer pipe in China
Chinese firefighters free baby as police treat case as attempted murder
The landlord of the building in Pujiang county told Zhejiang News that it was unlikely the birth took place in the toilet room because there was no evidence of blood and she was not aware of any recent pregnancies among her tenants.
The baby was stuck in the L-joint of pipe with a diameter of about 10 centimetres.
The video shows rescuers sawing out a section of the pipe along a ceiling that apparently was just below the restroom. The rescuers then rushed that section of pipe to a hospital, where firefighters and medics alternately used pliers and saws to rip apart the L-joint and free the baby.
Despite the offers to adopt Baby No. 59, a doctor at the hospital said the boy would be handed over to social services if his parents do not claim him.
- AP
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Rescue workers breaking away bits of a pipe to remove a newborn baby boy stuck inside in the city of Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang.[/caption]
Chinese firefighters free baby as police treat case as attempted murder
Newborn baby rescued from sewer pipe in China
Chinese firefighters free baby as police treat case as attempted murder
The landlord of the building in Pujiang county told Zhejiang News that it was unlikely the birth took place in the toilet room because there was no evidence of blood and she was not aware of any recent pregnancies among her tenants.
The baby was stuck in the L-joint of pipe with a diameter of about 10 centimetres.
The video shows rescuers sawing out a section of the pipe along a ceiling that apparently was just below the restroom. The rescuers then rushed that section of pipe to a hospital, where firefighters and medics alternately used pliers and saws to rip apart the L-joint and free the baby.
Despite the offers to adopt Baby No. 59, a doctor at the hospital said the boy would be handed over to social services if his parents do not claim him.
- AP
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