Baby swept into sewage system dies

RUSSIAN rescuers scoured the sewer system in the central city of Bryansk yesterday in search for the body of an 18-month baby who tumbled through the ground with his mother when the pavement collapsed.

The emergency service said 26-year-old Tatyana Didorenko was walking her child, Kirill, in a stroller through the city’s main square when the pavement buckled because of a ruptured hotwater pipe.

The baby fell out of his stroller and vanished while the woman’s policeman husband managed to pull her out of the four-square-metre hole using a rope.