Hangzhou: A two-year-old
Chinese girl left unattended fell 10 stories from her family's
apartment window and survived after being caught by a woman passing
by, state media reported Sunday.
The toddler was in critical condition 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 Saturday afternoon when the
older woman left the 10th-floor apartment outside the eastern city
of Hangzhou to run an errand, CCTV said.
Neighbors 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."
The impact knocked Wu out and sent her crumbling to the ground
along with breaking her left arm, the reports said.
CCTV quoted an unidentified doctor at the Children's Hospital of
Zhejiang 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.
