Baby girl was abandoned in student toilet

A newborn baby girl became wedged inside the pipe of a university toilet after her student mother gave birth and then fled the scene.

Police believe the woman had hoped to hide the pregnancy but because the toilet had no water filled U-bend, and because the pipe was only 20cm wide, the baby girl had become wedged a short way down, where her cries alerted other students who then raised the alarm.

Firemen rushed to the student dormitory in Linyi in eastern China’s Shandong Province.