Chinese firefighters and medics have rescued a newborn boy from a sewer pipe below a squat toilet.
State-run news site Zhejiang News said a tenant heard the baby's cries in the public restroom of a residential building in Jinhua City in eastern China's Puijian county on Saturday and notified authorities.
Video footage of the two-hour rescue that followed was broadcast widely on Chinese news programmes and websites this week.
The child, named Baby number 59 from the number of his hospital incubator, was reported safe in a nearby hospital.
News of the rescue prompted an outpouring from strangers who came to the hospital with nappies, baby clothes, powdered milk and offers to adopt the child.
Police are treating the case as an attempted homicide, and are looking for the mother and anyone else involved in the incident.
The landlord of the building, in Pujiang county, told Zhejiang News that 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.
The baby was stuck in the L-joint of pipe with a diameter of about 10cm.
The video footage shows rescuers sawing out a section of the pipe along a ceiling that apparently was just below the level of the restroom.
The rescuers then rushed that section of pipe to a hospital, were firefighters and medics alternately used pliers and saws to rip apart the L-joint and free the baby.
Despite the offers to adopt Baby number 59, a doctor at the hospital said the boy would be handed over to social services if his parents do not show up to claim him, Zhejiang News said.
