‘Given a second life’: home-alone toddler in China tumbles from third floor flat, caught by man among dozen of passers-by who rushed to rescue
- Instinct takes over as group of passers-by rush to catch 19-month-old boy who had wandered onto third-floor balcony and fallen off
- Toddler’s grateful father thanks bus driver who caught and took impact of son’s fall, saving boy and family
People on mainland social media have flocked to view a viral video which captures the moment a group of passers-by performed an instinctive and dramatic rescue of a toddler falling from the third-floor balcony of a building.
Surveillance footage from July 24 shows a group of passers-by reacting in unison by running towards the building in China’s northwestern Shaanxi province with open arms and trying to catch the child who was tumbling down from the third floor.
Amazingly, the toddler, 19-month-old Chenchen, landed in the arms of one of them and only suffered minor grazes to his legs, according to the news outlet Huashang News.
The man who caught him, Wang Jing, is a bus driver and a father of two children.
Wang said he was riding an electric bike on his way to work when he suddenly spotted Chenchen walking on the balcony outside the third floor flat.
He said he immediately put the bike aside and rushed towards the building as the youngster looked like he was about to fall over the edge of the balcony.