Watch: Child Accidentally Scanned By Baggage X-Ray Machine At Railway Station

A bizarre video circulated on social media showed a child crawling into a baggage x-ray machine at a railway station in Zhongshan, southern China's Guangdong Province, and getting scanned.

The incident took place Oct. 9 at Xiaolan Railway Station and a video of the rare moment was uploaded by China’s television channel CGTN on Twitter.

The video showed a man going through the body scan at the security check point inside the railway station and then frantically looking for his son, who was nowhere to be found.

As he continued to frantically search in every direction for his child, he was shocked to see his son emerge from the end of the baggage scanning machine.

A screenshot of what the confused security staff witnessed at the train station was released to the public. It showed the silhouette of a child, whose age was not known, in a crawling position inside the x-ray machine.

Officials said the incident was a result of neither the child’s father, nor the railway staff paying any attention to the kid while the man was being bodily scanned at the checkpoint. Neither the man nor his child was carrying any luggage, Mail Online reported.

The man briefly talked to the authorities before leaving the facility with his child. Law enforcement got involved and warned the man to take better care of his son while going through security check points in the future.

According to Harvard Medical School, exposure to radiation from x-rays in some cases increases the risk of cancer later in life:

“The radiation you get from x-ray, CT, and nuclear imaging is ionizing radiation — high-energy wavelengths or particles that penetrate tissue to reveal the body's internal organs and structures. Ionizing radiation can damage DNA, and although your cells repair most of the damage, they sometimes do the job imperfectly, leaving small areas of 'misrepair.' The result is DNA mutations that may contribute to cancer years down the road.”

This was not the first incident of its kind to happen. In February, a woman climbed into an x-ray machine with her handbag at a train station in the Guangdong Province over fears that her belongings might be stolen.