Villagers Unearth Newborn Boy Mistakenly Buried Alive

This is the moment two villagers dig up an abandoned newborn boy who was mistakenly buried alive in a cardboard box because his family thought he had died.

The recently released footage was taken on 21st August and led to a police investigation which has taken an expected twist this week after the boy’s grandfather told police the child was buried after he had “stopped breathing” and “died”.

Nanbaita Village residents Jiao Xinglu and Zhou Shangdong were gathering mushrooms on the outskirts of the city of Laiwu, in East China’s Shandong Province, when they came across the buried newborn that morning.