Rescuers free boy from narrow pipe in China

A rescue team in northwest China has managed to free a seven-year-old boy trapped in a narrow pipe.

The first rescue attempt involved hoisting the thinnest member of the group down the pipe to try to attach a harness around him.



But the boy was too far down to reach and the rescuer could not get his shoulders into the pipe.

A group of firemen then lowered a makeshift harness down and encouraged the boy to grab it, and eventually hauled him out. The boy emerged shocked but otherwise uninjured. It is unclear how the boy became trapped in the pipe.