Toddler falls into sewage system

An 18-MONTH-OLD Russian child was swept into an underground sewage system after a pavement collapsed because of a ruptured pipe. The mother, a 26-year-old policeman’s wife, was pushing the child in a buggy yesterday in the city of Bryansk when the ground caved in.

Police said the woman was rescued, but the child was swept away by the current into a collecting tank for the sewage system and was presumed dead.