Chinese toddler survives 10-storey fall

Quick thinking of woman passerby saves two-year-old girl who had been left unattended in apartment in Hangzhou A two-year-old Chinese girl left unattended fell 10 stories from her family’s apartment window but survived, thanks to a woman passing by, state media reported on Sunday. The toddler was in a critical condition with internal bleeding and other unspecified injuries while the woman who caught her suffered a broken arm, China Central Television and the Xinhua news agency said. The girl, named as Zhang Fangyu but known by her nickname Niu Niu, was in the care of her grandmother on Saturday afternoon when the woman left the 10th-floor apartment outside the eastern city of Hangzhou 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. Wu, a 31-year-old mother, told CCTV that when she saw the little 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.” The impact knocked Wu out and broke her left arm, reports said. CCTV quoted an unidentified doctor at Zhejiang children’s hospital as saying that a scan showed no damage to Niu Niu’s brain but that the girl’s abdomen was swollen in a sign of possible injury to organs. China guardian.co.uk

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