SEOUL (The Korea Herald/ANN): A police officer in South Korea managed to catch an elementary school pupil who had to jump out of a second-floor window of a burning building, local police said Sept 6.
According to the Pyeongtaek Police Station, a fire broke out on the third floor of a factory building in Poseung-eup, Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province at 3.58pm on Sept 5.
Police officers evacuated the area but later found the young boy crying for help, stranded on the second floor of the building.
Unable to enter the building already in flames, a police officer shouted to the boy: “Trust me and jump”. The officer managed to catch the child who jumped out of the window.
The boy is being treated for smoke inhalation at a hospital near the factory building. The fire was extinguished by firefighters at 5.36pm.
Officials are investigating the cause of the fire, preliminarily suspecting it to be caused by an electrical short circuit. THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
