Firefighters in eastern
China have rescued an abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage pipe. The
infant was stuck in a pipe directly beneath a toilet commode, state television
reported, in a case which has sparked anger on social media sites. There are
frequent reports in Chinese media of babies being abandoned, often shortly
after birth.
The problem is attributed variously to young
mothers unaware they were pregnant, the birth of an unwanted girl in a society
which puts greater value on boys or China's strict family planning rules.
In the latest case, the infant was found in the
sewage pipe in a residential building in Jinhua in the wealthy coastal province
of Zhejiang on Saturday afternoon.
The harrowing discovery came after residents
reported the sound of a baby crying, state television said late on Monday. The
pipe was just four inches wide in diameter, the China Daily newspaper said.
Firefighters had to remove the pipe and take it to a nearby hospital, where
doctors carefully cut around it to rescue the baby boy inside, the report said.
His arms had been pinned to his side, and when the
confines of the pipe had been delicately prised away, he let out a long wail -
much to the relief of doctors who were battling against the clock to rescue
him.
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