Six children exploited a safety loophole to sneak into the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport through a drain fence Wednesday.

The children, aged between 9 and 13, were playing in the drainage tunnel before being seized by airport workers.

Curious about the planes taking off and landing inside the airport, the six children living nearby decided to get into the airport to play. They got into the airport through a gap in the fence.

Excited about their success, they had a good time playing inside the airport before patrolling workers discovered them.

The workers got ladders to help the children go up the six-meter-high bank and told them off before letting them go.

The children demonstrated their stunt again by getting out of the airport through the drain fence.

The airport then decided to halve the gap in the fence to stop the same thing happening again.

(Shenzhen Daily July 8, 2005)