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3rd July 2011, 23:53
I read this and immediately got a "gut" intuition that this woman was helped significantly in her rush to catch the child. What do you think?
http://www.smh.com.au/world/passerby-catches-toddler-who-fell-10-storeys-20110704-1gxps.html
A two-year-old Chinese girl left unattended fell 10 storeys from her family's apartment window and survived after being caught by a woman passing by, state media reported.
The toddler was in critical condition on Sunday with internal bleeding and other unspecified injuries while the woman who saved her suffered a broken arm, China Central Television and the Xinhua News Agency said.
The girl, named Zhang Fangyu but known by the nickname Niu Niu, was in the care of her grandmother on Saturday afternoon when the older woman left the 10th-floor apartment outside the city of Hangzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, to run an errand, CCTV said.
Neighbours saw Niu Niu dangling from the apartment window for several minutes, Xinhua said, and when the girl fell, Wu Juping "kicked off her high-heeled shoes" and ran to catch the child.
"It was so urgent. I saw her when she was about to fall and rushed there, and after tens of seconds she fell off," CCTV quoted Wu as saying.
A 31-year-old mother, Wu told CCTV that when she saw the hanging girl she thought of her own seven-month-old son who had once fallen from a high chair and cut his mouth: "I thought to myself 'I should stretch my arms to her. Because I am right here, I must get her.' Then I made it. I caught her in my arms."
http://www.smh.com.au/world/passerby-catches-toddler-who-fell-10-storeys-20110704-1gxps.html
A two-year-old Chinese girl left unattended fell 10 storeys from her family's apartment window and survived after being caught by a woman passing by, state media reported.
The toddler was in critical condition on Sunday with internal bleeding and other unspecified injuries while the woman who saved her suffered a broken arm, China Central Television and the Xinhua News Agency said.
The girl, named Zhang Fangyu but known by the nickname Niu Niu, was in the care of her grandmother on Saturday afternoon when the older woman left the 10th-floor apartment outside the city of Hangzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, to run an errand, CCTV said.
Neighbours saw Niu Niu dangling from the apartment window for several minutes, Xinhua said, and when the girl fell, Wu Juping "kicked off her high-heeled shoes" and ran to catch the child.
"It was so urgent. I saw her when she was about to fall and rushed there, and after tens of seconds she fell off," CCTV quoted Wu as saying.
A 31-year-old mother, Wu told CCTV that when she saw the hanging girl she thought of her own seven-month-old son who had once fallen from a high chair and cut his mouth: "I thought to myself 'I should stretch my arms to her. Because I am right here, I must get her.' Then I made it. I caught her in my arms."