Terror Of Four-Year-Old Boy Stuck In Narrow Steel Pipe For 25 Hours!

A TERRIFIED little boy had a lucky escape after climbing into a steel pipe and getting stuck 60 feet down.

DRAMATIC RESCUE: Firefighters had to cut through thick steel piping to rescue Wu Lin [CEN]

The four-year-old-old became wedged at the bottom of the pipe which only has a circumference of 40cm.

Wu Lin, who suffers from autism, was trapped for 25 hours and was cold, shocked and malnourished by the time rescue workers finally managed to free him.

The incident happened in Pengze county in south China’s Jiangxi province. The curious boy fell into the pipe when he climbed up the outside to have a look.

SURVIVOR: Little Wu Lin had a lucky escape after being trapped in the pipe [CEN]

LONG WAY DOWN: A rope was lower but Wu Lin was too tired to grip it [CEN]

"Luckily, the section of the tube where the boy was trapped was buried in the earth, so it was not too cold, but cold enough for a little boy," said a police spokesman.

A rescuer said: "He was very distressed. He had been stuck for a long time. It was difficult to get him out. He was very traumatised by the experience.

"His parents had reported him missing and a search was carried out, but nobody could find him. Then he was heard shouting from the bottom of the tube and we managed to get him out.

COLD AND SCARED: Rescuers near the boy [CEN]

"He is lucky someone heard him otherwise he may not have survived. The weather is turning cold and he may have frozen to death had he not been found."

The tube is too narrow for an adult to get inside, so rescuers firstly sent a rope inside for the boy to climb out by himself. But he was too weakened by the experience to haul himself free.

Later, rescuers chose to cut a hole in the tube underground after digging a pit. He was reunited with his parents after a medical check up.

NEARLY THERE: The boy's hands can be seen [CEN]

NOW GET OUT OF THAT: The long pipe where Wu Lin was stuck for 25 hours [CEN