God is at work again as the tenants in an east China apartment building heard the cry, like the mewling of a rabbit or a cat.
Then they decided to find out. To their surprise they saw an incredible thing -- a newborn's foot in an opening of a toilet pipe.
When rescuers arrived
Saturday, they first tried to pull the child free by cutting the pipe.
Working together, doctors
and rescuers used pliers to pull away bits of the pipe, eventually
revealing the baby, its shoulders and head pressed against the pipe's
lining. The placenta was still attached. See photos below....
The mother of the infant is not being identified, but police say she is 22.
Local police say that, so far, they believe her account of how the baby ended up in the pipe.
Police questioned the
woman, who told them that she did not intend for the child to fall into
the toilet. "That day she felt
stomachaches," said Jiang Song, the vice director of police. "So she
went to the toilet. It was actually close to her due date and the baby
just slid out."She tried to retrieve the baby with a stick, then decided to flush the toilet to clear away the blood.
The police say that the mother called her
landlord, saying she'd heard a strange sound that seemed like it might
be a baby and suggested that the landlord and others come to check.
When police arrived at the apartment, they said, they found a pair of pants stained with blood.
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