Rescuers in south west China have taken on a challenge which has tested their equipment to its limits - freeing the leg of a two-year old boy trapped in a gap in a drainage canal in the pavement.
The toddler was apparently playing in the street when he slipped and his foot got lodged in the grate.
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Police quickly arrived and chiselled away at the corners of the concrete block to try and lever it out - but quickly gave up. A small hydraulic ram was bought in to crack open the grate - but that too failed.
Finally, firefighters arrived with a full-scale jaws of life, and even these struggled, simply chipping away the surface of the plate. Eventually, though, rescuers did manage to chip away a hole large enough for the boys leg to be freed, much to the relief of his mother.
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