Chinese Spider-Man saves boy, 2, hanging from fifth-floor window
Ex-soldier climbed up window grilles to reach toddler and push him to safety
A former soldier scaled a building to save a two-year-old boy dangling from the grille of a fifth-floor window in central China, in a scene reminiscent of the recent “Spider-Man” rescue in Paris.
Zhang Xin is seen in video footage climbing five storeys with his bare hands on Wednesday, pulling himself up from floor to floor using window grilles until he reaches the toddler. The clip, posted on the Pear Video website, has been widely shared online.
Anxious residents watching Zhang climb from a first-floor balcony of the block in Huaihua, Hunan province are seen holding a tarpaulin beneath him in case he falls.
He swiftly makes it to the fifth floor and manages to push the crying child – who had been clinging to the bars on the window as he hung in mid-air – safely back into the flat.
Last week, Malian migrant Mamoudou Gassama was honoured by French President Emmanuel Macron and offered citizenship after his Spider Man-style rescue of a four-year-old child – in which he climbed from balcony to balcony to a fourth-floor Paris flat – was also filmed and circulated online.
