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Toddler Rescued From Washing Machine Drum
11:17am Tuesday November 30, 2010
Lorna Blount
A boy has had a lucky escape after getting stuck in the drum of a washing machine in northern China.
Chaofan became stuck in the washing machine while he was playing hide-and-seek with his mother in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.
The three-year-old's mother said her son hid himself in the washing machine only to find his legs were tightly caught in the machine's drum.
He was trapped for over an hour until emergency services freed him. The pictures from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV show the boy being rescued by several firefighters who used a circular saw - just inches from his legs - to cut open the drum.
The rescue operation lasted an hour. Chaofan's is only the latest close call involving a washing machine.
