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

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