To rescue her child from a burning flat, a woman in China was forced to throw her 40-day-old infant out of the window. The video taken in Wenzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, has gone viral with over 100 million views on Weibo and 10 million on Douyin, South China Morning Post reported on Monday(July 10). From the video...
To rescue her child from a burning flat, a woman in China was forced to throw her 40-day-old infant out of the window.
From the video posted, the mother can be seen standing with her baby with another woman at the window of her third-storey flat with thick smoke billowing from the building.Below the building, anxious neighbours, shop owners and even passers-by can be seen standing in position to catch the infant in an outstretched quilt, SCMP reported.Thankfully, the baby was caught safely in the makeshift net.
"The mother's action was too risky!" one commenter said. "What if the baby was not caught? Why not use a basket to hold the baby and a long rope to lower the basket?"
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