A video of a man in China’s Zhejiang province catching a toddler who fell out of a sixth-floor apartment window has gone viral.
On July 19, the man is seen on CCTV footage uploaded to Twitter by China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijiang talking on the phone as he rushes towards the front of the building, briefly slipping. He then raises his head and catches the falling toddler in his arms.
The video cuts to CCTV footage of the building, where the 3-year-old girl can be seen slipping out of the window and rapidly tumbling downwards.
The video has received more than 158,000 views and 9,000 likes.
The toddler was discharged from Tongxiang Second People’s Hospital on Friday after receiving treatment.
According to the man, he heard a bang from the top of the apartment building and looked up to see the small toddler tumbling out the window. He described himself as fortunate to have caught the girl on time and explained that it was purely instinctual.
The man was hailed as a “hero” by Weibo users, including Zhao, who described the Good Samaritan as “heroes among us” in a Twitter post.
