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Chinese firefighters have rescued a newborn boy from a sewer pipe below a squat toilet, sawing out an L-shaped section and then delicately dismantling it to free the cocooned two-day-old baby, who greeted the rescuers with cries.
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A tenant heard the baby's sounds in the public restroom of a residential building in Zhejiang province in eastern China on Saturday and notified authorities, according to the state-run news site Zhejiang News. A video of the two-hour rescue that followed was broadcast widely on Chinese news programmes and websites late on Monday and Tuesday.
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The child - named Baby No. 59 from the number of his hospital incubator - was reported safe in a nearby hospital, and news of the rescue prompted an outpouring from strangers who came to the hospital with diapers, baby clothes, powdered milk and offers to adopt the child.
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"Fortunately the baby survived. But the person (who abandoned him) is still suspected of attempted murder," said a police officer, according to the official news portal hangzhou.com.cn. Police are treating the case as an attempted homicide, and are looking for the mother and anyone else involved in the incident.
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The landlord of the building in Pujiang county told Zhejiang News said it was unlikely the birth took place in the toilet room because there was no evidence of blood and she was not aware of any recent pregnancies among her tenants.
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