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A Chinese couple has been reunited with their newborn son after he was abducted from her mother's hospital ward and sold to another family 800 miles away.<br>Police footage shows the mother breaking down in tears when she met her baby six days after he was stolen from her bedside in Yunnan province in southern [/news/china/index.html China].<br>The crying woman is seen holding her child tightly and kissing him when her husband tried to console her.<br>                Police footage shows the mother breaking down in tears when she met her baby six days after he was stolen from her bedside at People's Hospital in Yunnan's Weixi County, southern China<br>         The crying woman is seen kissing her baby when her husband tries to console her on July 11<br>   RELATED ARTICLES  [# Previous] [# 1] [# Next]     [/news/article-8557263/Hundreds-thousands-people-swarm-listen-rabbits-soothing-chewing-sound.html  Hundreds of thousands of people swarm to listen to a...] [/news/article-8556257/Major-Chinese-port-city-locks-communities-enters-coronavirus-wartime-mode.html  Major Chinese port city goes into coronavirus 'wartime mode'...] [/news/article-8556669/Chinese-sperm-bank-urges-male-citizens-actively-make-donations-facing-stock-shortage.html  Chinese sperm bank urges male citizens to 'actively make...] [/news/article-8556753/Heroic-delivery-driver-uses-body-shield-girl-cleaver-wielding-stranger.html  Heroic delivery driver uses his own body to shield a girl...]    <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br>4.1k shares<br><br><br>The case was revealed on Sunday by the police in Yunnan.<br>According to a [ ], the baby was abducted on July 5 from the People's Hospital in Yunnan's Weixi County.<br><br>He had just been born for 46 hours.<br>After the police were alerted, they immediately formed a team to investigate the case.<br>The devastated mother told the police that the child was stolen in the wee hours from her ward when she was sleeping.<br>She said: 'My child had been born for just 46 hours and he was stolen. I had breastfed him at around 2am, and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-trung-quoc-ha-khau-con-minh-le-giang-shangrila-shangri-la-6-ngay.html tour lệ giang shangrila] when I woke up at 3 o'clock, he disappeared.'<br>              While reviewing surveillance footage, officers saw a suspicious person (left, circled) leaving the hospital in a hurry while carrying a baby at around 2:25am on July 5. Police worked for 76 hours non-stop to find the newborn (right),  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-trung-quoc-ha-khau-con-minh-le-giang-shangrila-shangri-la-6-ngay.html tour lệ giang shangrila] who had been driven to a home 800 miles away<br>While reviewing surveillance footage, officers saw a suspicious person leaving the hospital in a hurry while carrying a baby at around 2:25am.<br>The police checked through the information of more than 2,000 vehicles thought to be related to the case and narrowed down their target to an unlicensed black Jeep.<br>After using the data from the country's mass surveillance system, the police found out that the vehicle belonged to a man, Li.<br>The suspect and his car frequently appeared near the hospital before the incident, but suddenly travelled to a nearby city, called Lijiang, afterwards.<br>The police caught Li at a hotel in Lijiang in the wee hours of July 7.<br><br>The suspect claimed to have already sold the baby to a man, known as Luo, who lives in another [http://www.buzzfeed.com/search?q=province province] more than 800 miles away.<br>Officers decided to drive to the buyer's home immediately to rescue the baby.<br>         When police arrived at the buyers' home,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-trung-quoc-ha-khau-con-minh-le-giang-shangrila-shangri-la-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] the boy's 'mother' was holding him in the sitting room<br>         The police caught the suspected human trafficker at a hotel in Lijiang in the wee hours of July 7<br>When they arrived at the county of Ebian in Sichuan province about 48 hours later, Luo's wife, Wang, was [http://bordersalertandready.com/?s=holding&search=Search holding] the boy in their bedroom.<br>[ ]released by the Missing Children Alert Platform of China's Ministry of Public Security shows police questioning Wang before taking the child away.<br>It is [ ]that Luo and Wang had trouble conceiving.<br><br>They were said to have bought the boy for 50,000 yuan (£5,574) after being introduced to Li by a relative. <br>The police then drove the baby back to Yunnan and arranged him to be reunited with his parents on July 11.<br>The baby's father thanked police after they handed him his son.<br>He said: 'If it weren't for the help from police officers, I might not be able to meet my son again for the rest of my life.'<br>The suspected trafficker, Zhang, and the baby's buyers, Luo and Wang, are under further police investigation.<br>