Newborn baby girl rescued from toilet stable in hospital

Beijing, August 4

A newborn Chinese baby girl who was abandoned in a public toilet here and fell head-first down the pipe, is in a hospital and recovering after being rescued by police.

Police received a call on Monday alerting it that some people heard a baby crying in the toilet. Police arrived at the spot and found the baby stuck in the sewer of the toilet, People's Daily reported.

"The baby's head was upside down and the whole body has fallen into the sewer. I could vaguely saw the baby's feet from the side," said police officer Qian Feng when recalling the situation.

Without knowing the situation inside the sewer, Qian considered firstly to demolish the urinal.

Finally Qian caught the baby's body in the sewer and pulled her out cautiously barehanded, the report said.

The baby was immediately sent to hospital for treatment.

The baby girl is now in hospital for further treatment, with relatively stable vital signs.

She doesn't have any obvious defects from the appearance.

This is the second instance of just born baby left in toilet in China in recent times.

Judging from the blood left on the site and secretions on the baby, people speculated that the baby was abandoned by the mother after she gave birth in the toilet. — PTI