Woman saves toddler who fell from 10th floor

Woman saves toddler who fell from 10th floor

Swift action by a woman saved the life of a two-year-old girl, who fell from the 10th floor of a building in China.

Wu Juping, 31, ran to the building when she heard someone screaming.

She managed to catch the girl before she hit the ground, but failed to hold onto her.

"The girl's brain, lungs, gastrointestinal tract are all damaged because of her fall from a great height. She also has difficulty urinating," a doctor with Zhejiang Children's Hospital said.

Rescuer Wu Juping smiles at her own son while receiving treatment at the hospital

Wu suffered a fracture in her left arm and will have to undergo surgery.

In the incident in Hangzhou last Saturday, the girl's grandmother went to get some quilts she was drying on the roof.

Later, the girl crawled onto the windowsill and tried to climb to meet her granny using a ladder. She fell.

"If it were not for Wu, my daughter would have no chance of surviving," the girl's father, surnamed Zhang, told China Central Television.

"I did it out of motherly instinct," Wu told Hangzhou-based Youth Times.

"I know how difficult it is to deliver and bring up a child. I wouldn't accept it if the child had died in front of me," said Wu, whose own baby is only seven months old.

Source: China Daily/ANN

Published July 5 2011