Newborn baby rescued from sewer pipe in China

A newborn Chinese baby boy has been rescued from a four-inch wide sewage pipe after apparently being flushed away by his parents

JINHUA, China -- Chinese firefighters have rescued a newborn baby boy from a sewage pipe in an apartment block in Jinhua, a city in China's Zhejiang province.

Residents of the apartment building called for help after they heard the baby's cries. The infant had become stuck in the four-inch-wide sewage pipe.

The firefighters' attempts to pull the baby out of the pipe failed. They therefore sawed off the pipe section instead, and took it to hospital, where it was carefully dismantled to release the infant.

According to reports by China Daily, the baby had severe bruising but was in stable condition.

Jinhua police appealed for the baby's mother to come forward. "Mom, come back! The baby is resilient and alive. Please show up, Mom. This is your own baby and he should return to your warm embrace soon," police said in a statement released on social media website Weibo.