Man rescues three-year-old girl who fell from 12th floor in Vietnam

A delivery man saved the life of a three-year-old girl by catching her in flight when he fell from the balcony of his apartment on the twelfth floor of a building in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, local press reported on Monday.

From images published on the newspaper’s website Your three, the girl climbed the balcony bars on Sunday afternoon and she was hanging outside, supported by an arm, while the neighbors shouted alarm for someone to help him.

Nguyen Ngoc Manh, a 31-year-old delivery boy waiting for a customer at the entrance of the building, heard the screams, rushed out of his car and He climbed onto a metal roof on the first floor, just below the balcony from which the girl was hanging.

“After I climbed to the roof about two meters high, I saw the girl fall. At that point, I slipped, but tried to reach out to join her. Luckily he fell into my arms we both fell and hit the metal roof “, he told the newspaper.

The man said he was scared when he saw blood in the little girl’s mouth and took her to the hospital, where doctors determined that she had a broken leg and arm, but her health was stable.

Manh, who claimed to have a daughter of the same age, suffered a sprain, which he downplayed because he had been able to do “something important”.

El Mercurio (Chile)