Police in China launched a major rescue operation to save a drowning woman, only to discover the victim was actually a discarded sex doll.
A crowd of around 1,000 people gathered at a riverbank in Shandong Province as 18 officers worked frantically for almost an hour to save the stricken rubber toy.
Additional medical workers and firefighters struggled to get to the scene as the drama unfolded.
Rescued: The sex doll that sparked a major rescue operation after being mistaken for a drowning woman
