Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report
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This is the moment a toddler clinging to the outside of a high-rise tower block plunges five floors before his neighbours catch him with two big blankets.
The unnamed three-year-old from Chongqing’s Jiulongpo District in south-western China had reportedly been left sleeping at home and woke up to look for his nan.
He climbed a counter on his fifth-floor family’s balcony and tumbled over the glass balustrade, but he managed to cling to the outside of the building by holding on to the metal railings.
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Video filmed by neighbour Mr Liu inside Jiucheng First Residential District shows the boy struggling to pull himself back onto his balcony on the afternoon of 29th July.
“He tried so many times whole holding on to the metal railing with both hands,” Mr Liu said.
He added: “He was kicking and trying to climb up. He managed to lift himself a little bit but then slid back down again.”
Security guards in the residential district said they knocked on the door in Block 7 but received no answer, suggesting the boy had likely been left at home unsupervised.
Before they could find a way to open the door, however, the boy grew too tired to hold on and plunged off the side of the high-rise.
Mr Liu’s video shows neighbours and security guards on the ground having just managed to spread two blankets when the boy falls.
Luckily, the tot falls right in the middle of the blanket and was unharmed.
Neighbours said they returned the boy to his nan, who returned from an errand, and who refused to take him to hospital.
She instead took him back home, but the child’s parents, who were at work at the time, later came back and took their son for a check-up.
It is unclear whether the child’s grandmother faces any punishment for leaving the tot at home alone.
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