Monday's altercation took place in Mayu township in the shadow of Wenzhou city in Zhejiang province, eastern China.

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The perimeter of Wenzhou city in Zhejiang province, to take one example, now encompasses clutches of farmhouses, complete with vegetable plots, quacking ducks and free-range children.

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Firefighters were called Saturday to the residential building in the Pujiang area of the eastern Zhejiang province city of Jinhua to rescue a baby trapped in the L-joint of a sewage pipe just below a squat toilet in one of the building's public restrooms.

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