A new born baby has been rescued after she mother gave birth to her and allegedly stuffed her into a toilet pipe.
The mother of the child, who remains unnamed, is reportedly a student in Linyi University in Shandong province in eastern China.
It is believed that the mother gave birth to the child in the toilet on Sunday, September 14, 2014 and flushed the baby down the toilet of the fourth floor of the university building.
Rescue came for the child when students heard a her crying through the pipes leading away from the bathroom in the student dormitory.
Pictures have been made available to media showing the moment the baby was rescued from the 20 centimetre-wide toilet pipes by firemen. Firemen used an angle grinder to cut the pipes and push the baby up and out of the pipes to their colleagues.
“It was impossible to get the baby out from above,” said Tao Fang, spokesman for the fire brigade unit that responded to the distress call.
“She had fallen into the toilet and gone down the pipes were she had got stuck between the third and fourth floors.
We used an angle grinder to break open the pipeline on the third floor and we could then push the child up to colleagues on the fourth floor where she was handed to medics who were waiting to take her to hospital,” he explained
A photo shows a incredible image of the baby wedged between the pipes.
Pictures have emerged showing the moment a newborn baby was rescued after she was found stuffed in a pipe leading away from a university bathroom.
Police say that the mother has been identified and she has also been hospitalised. The police say they are waiting to question her before they would decide whether she would be charged for a crime.
This incident has caused an outcry in China, especially on social media platforms.
