Newborn baby found in toilet pipe after student mum gives birth then flees

China: It is believed the baby's mother hoped to hide the pregnancy - but other students heard the infant's cries and alerted firemen

Police believe that the young woman had hoped to hide the pregnancy but because the toilet had no water filled U-bend, and because the pipe was only twenty centimetres wide, the baby girl's body had become wedged a short way down, where her cries alerted other students who then raised the alarm.