A newborn baby girl was found abandoned in a pipe leading from a university lavatory in China.
Her mother, a student at Linyi University in eastern China's Shandong Province, gave birth to her on Sunday and fled the scene, leaving her baby behind.
Police believe that the young woman had hoped to hide the pregnancy, but the baby was discovered after her cries alerted other students.
As the pipe was only 20 centimetres wide, her body became wedged a short way down.
Firemen broke the pipeline open to rescue the baby, who was stuck between the third and fourth floors.
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."
The girl survived her ordeal and is now in hospital with her mother, who was tracked down by the police.
They are waiting to question her before deciding any criminal charges.
But the story has ignited debate on Chinese social media sites, with many lamenting a lack of decent values among the country's youth and expressing shock at the mother's careless abandonment of her baby.
One user on China's popular social media site Weibo, WangLo34, said: "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."
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