A child in northwest China fell from the window of his fifth-floor apartment, but was saved by a man who saw what was happening and got out of his car just in time to cushion the fall.
The heart-stopping incident took place on Thursday evening in Yining, a city in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The little boy, who is two-and-a-half, climbed on and fell from a window on the fifth floor. of an apartment tower.
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Tonik Turghanbek was parking his car beside the apartment building when he noticed the boy at the window.
Security camera footage shows the 28-year-old get out of his car and stretch his arms in a bid to catch the falling child, before being knocked to the ground by the falling toddler.
"The moment I saw it, he was already falling. I thought of nothing at the moment, and then I caught him.
"I don't know what happened after that, as I fainted for a while. When I woke up, police and rescuers were all here," Turghanbek recalled.
The child was sent to a local hospital for a health check, but he did not suffer any serious injuries.
Turghanbek escaped with some scratches and abrasions on his head and arms.
"After the health check, we found the child safe and sound. He can walk and call his grandma. I was really happy and the child faced no life threat," said Serq Buranbe, a doctor from the Friendship Hospital of Yili Prefecture.
