New | Abandoned baby 'almost choked to death' after being stuffed inside bag
Child was rescued by passersby who heard its cries; police have not said if parents were found
A newborn girl was discovered swaddled inside a zipped bag that was left on a roadside in Xiamen city this week, and was rescued before it choked to death.
Passersby heard an infant’s muffled cries while walking on Jiahe Road in one of Fujian province’s largest cities at around 8am on Wednesday, according to Xinhua.
One of them, a woman identified as Ms Guo, said she turned around to look for the source of the sound and thought it was coming from a “suspicious” brown bag.
When she unzipped it, she was shocked to find a baby, face-down, in the bag.
Guo said she immediately turned the baby, whose face was blue, into the upright position. “The baby’s face was already oxygen-deficit,” the Xinhua report said, quoting the woman.