Dramatic video: he threw his children from the third floor to save them from a fire | the Chronicle

A woman saved her four children from a burning building in Istanbul by being thrown out of a third floor window.

Video footage captured each falling child as volunteers on the street below held up a blanket to grab them. In the dramatic footage, the reaction of passers-by is observed and some of them shout at the woman not to throw children.

Turkish media reported that the children were not injured. The mother was taken to hospital as a precaution and then released.

The fire, which started in an electrical panel, was extinguished. Two other children and two older adults were also rescued.