Newborn baby saved by passersby after it was thrown down a public toilet with plastic bag on its head
The child was saved thanks to a dramatic rescue and immediately started crying as the plastic bag was ripped from its face
A newborn baby was dumped in the cesspit of a public toilet with a plastic bag wrapped around its head in a bid to stop people hearing its desperate cries.
The little one was spotted and incredibly survived after a passerby staged a dramatic rescue operation.
The baby had been spotted inside the toilet by a man using the facility and he quickly raised the alarm, calling neighbours to help.
A video of the rescue operation, taken by an eyewitness with a smartphone, shows two men using long metal poles to pull the baby out of the cesspit in the city of Khujand in north west Tajikistan.
Taking the baby out of the hole (Photo: CEN)
The rescuers then rip the plastic bag and plastic wrapping from the baby’s face and it immediately starts to cry.
Onlookers said it was a miracle the baby had survived and that it could only have only been there a matter of minutes.
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There is no information on the condition of the baby or on whether the mother has been identified.
It is not known whether the baby is a boy or a girl.
It is not the first time a baby has been found like this after another desperate mother dumped their newborn child.
A father-of-six found the youngster, again wrapped in plastic, in a similar toilet cesspit in May, in Kazhakstan.
The saved baby (Photo: CEN)
The 8lb 6oz tot was heard crying with its umbilical cord still attached when it was luckily heard by Moldagali Orynbasarov who was walking by.
He grabbed the minutes-old child from the human excrement pit and wrapped it in a plastic sack until paramedics arrived.