Watch: Kitten gets stuck in drain pipe as firefighters knock down concrete wall to save him

A kitten was stuck in a water drain pipe inside a concrete wall as firefighters battled for five hours to rescue him.

The fire brigade in Lucca, Italy, answered a call about a cat that had got stuck inside a concrete wall.

The rescue took more than five hours, but the feline was eventually freed and taken to a vet.

A fire service spokesman said: “Having identified the exact point where he was stuck with a probe, we opened a breach in the wall to save him.”