New Born Baby Rescued Alive After Being Flushed Down From University Toilet

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. The mother, a student at Linyi University in Shandong province in eastern China, is believed to have given birth to the child over a toilet on Sunday. The baby girl, who police suspect was flushed down the lavatory, was luckily found when students heard crying coming from a 20 centimetre-wide pipe leading away from the bathroom. Fire services were called and the newborn was eventually located wedged in a section of piping between the third and fourth floor of the university building. Firefighters rescued the baby using an angle grinder to cut the pipe and push the child up to colleagues on the floor above. The baby, who survived the ordeal, was then taken to hospital for checks. Fire Brigade spokesman Tao Fang said: ‘It was impossible to get the baby out from above. ‘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.’

Firefighters try to free the newborn baby girl  (Picture: Europics/ CEN) Police have tracked down the mother and are deciding whether or not to press charges. The incident sparked outcry on Chinese social media, with one person writing on Weibo: ‘I find the image of a young woman giving birth in the loo, cleaning herself up and then going back to her room to carry on studying a particularly worrying one and a sign of the sort of throwaway society that we live in now days.’