The lollipop kids: naked Chinese toddler, 2, leaves home with twin brother and sister, 1, only in diapers – all sucking sweets – as mum sleeps

A naked two-year-old Chinese toddler walked out of the family home at 6am – taking her one-year-old twin brother and sister, who were wearing only diapers – as they all sucked lollipops while their mother was sleeping, mainland media report.

Yet the trio’s “great escape” on Monday did not last long – or lead them very far, The Beijing News reported.

Police officers came to the rescue after spotting the children walking only about a block away from their Hangzhou home in Zhejiang province, near to a restaurant where the police often ate their breakfast.

Two officers went in search for the children’s parents, while another officer took care of the children as two others went to buy them some clothes.