Newborn baby rescued alive from toilet pipe after being flushed away by parents

A new born Chinese baby was rescued by firefighters from a toilet pipe after being flushed down the toilet by his parents.

The 2-day old baby was stuck in the sewage pipe directly beneath a toilet commode in a residential building in Jinhua in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang on Saturday afternoon, Chinese State TV reports

Firefighters received a call from residents of a block of flats saying they heard the sound of a baby crying and believed a baby was stuck in the pipe. When firefighters got there, they removed the pipe and took it to a nearby hospital, where doctors carefully cut around it to rescue the baby boy inside.

The baby, whose placenta was still attached, is believed to have been stuck in the pipe for hours. Unbelievably, he survived the ordeal.

He is now in care and said to be in stable condition. The police are said to be looking for his parents. God be praised.