‘Given a second life’: Home-alone toddler in China tumbles from third floor flat, caught by man among dozen of passers-by who rushed to rescue in viral video

Instinct takes over as group of passers-by rush to catch 19-month-old boy who had wandered onto third-floor balcony and fallen off. Toddler’s grateful father thanks bus driver who caught and took impact of son’s fall, saving boy and family. — SCMP

People on mainland social media have flocked to view a viral video which captures the moment a group of passers-by performed an instinctive and dramatic rescue of a toddler falling from the third-floor balcony of a building.

Surveillance footage from July 24 shows a group of passers-by reacting in unison by running towards the building in China’s northwestern Shaanxi province with open arms and trying to catch the child who was tumbling down from the third floor.