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A 2-year-old boy was rescued from a luggage screening area at Newark Liberty International Airport last week.

The child was swept away from a passenger luggage dropoff conveyor belt Wednesday evening while his mother was speaking with a JetBlue counter agent, reports say.

After falling down a chute to the lower level of the Terminal A checked baggage room, Port Authority Police Department officers went after him, according to local TV station PIX 11.

"The cops, realizing the danger the child was in, without hesitation, entered the conveyor system and, after about four minutes, located the child who was headed for an x-ray machine," the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association Inc said of the incident in a social media

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