Baby on mend after being flushed down toilet

A newborn boy is recovering in hospital after being dumped in a sewer pipe below a Chinese public toilet.

Baby on mend after being flushed down toilet

Firefighters sawed off a section of the three-inch wide pipe and then delicately dismantled it to free the baby after a tenant heard its cries in the toilet of a residential building in Zhejiang province in eastern China.

The child — named Baby No 59 from the number of his hospital incubator — is now recovering in a nearby hospital.

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