Published on August 4, 2015 at 9:46
Beijing: Police in Beijing is reported to have rescued a newborn baby who was accidentally stuck face down in a public toilet.
Beijing police said that the baby girl was in stable condition at a hospital in the Chinese capital.
Authorities are now trying their maximum to identify her parents.
Unmarried Chinese mothers used to abandon newborns as they fear society blemish associated with out-of-wedlock births.
Sometimes, parents may discard children if they are born with defects.
The local newspaper Beijing Times said that the police was gone to the public toilet in central Beijing after receiving reports of baby cries.
Feet of the child were also spotted in the toilet pipe.
According to the news paper, the baby girl was pulled out by a policeman who gently entered his hand into the pipe.
Even though the Beijing police confirmed the report, they were reluctant to give full details.
They said that the infant girl was appeared not to have any physical defects.
In 2013, rescuers in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang were cautiously cut open a sewer pipe to save a baby boy.
His mother said that the baby was accidentally slipped into the toilet when she delivered the child.
But according to local media reports, the woman was become pregnant after a one-night stand and hidden the pregnancy from her parents.
However, she later admitted to police that she was the mother of the baby boy.
Video on the infant girl who was saved by Chinese policemen