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A newborn baby boy is alive after 40 hours in a sewer in an apartment building in Alicante, Spain. Firefighters the baby from under a manhole cover. The child was in a plastic bag with a hole in it so he could . A man from the apartment building the police after he heard a coming from the sewer. He told reporters his story of what happened, saying: "I thought it was a cat that was and that the baby’s crying was its . The noise went on for ages so I called the police. One of the firefighters saw one of his tiny feet and it wasn't a cat but a child." The baby boy, who 2.1kg, is now safe in hospital. He has a broken arm and a few other injuries.

Spanish police the 26-year-old mother of the baby soon after he was . She is charged with attempted murder for trying to kill her son. Police have not yet the woman. Police officers said she went to a local hospital after she birth and told nurses she had a miscarriage. She then told the police that she her baby down a drain because she was too poor to pay for an abortion. Police are now to find out if she acted alone or if someone helped her. Last month, emergency workers in eastern China had to a newborn baby after it became in a sewer pipe. Its mother tried to give birth in secret and said the baby slipped down the toilet.