The Chinese superhero: caught a two-year-old baby girl who fell from the fifth floor

Shen Dong, 31, was parking his car in front of an apartment building in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, when he heard a loud noise and noticed that a baby had fallen from a fifth-floor window.

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25/07/2022

Monday, July 25, 2022, 1:33 p.m. Updated: 1:55 p.m.

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A Chinese man was declared a "national hero" after he miraculously caught a two-year-old girl who fell from a fifth-floor window.

Shen Dong, 31, was parking his car in front of an apartment building in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, when he heard a loud noise.

It was a baby girl who fell from the window from the fifth floor and landed on a metal roof.

The two-year-old slipped off the roof and was about to hit the sidewalk, when she was saved at the last moment by a tooth that caught her.

The girl was rushed to the hospital with injuries to her legs and lungs, and her condition is stable, the "South China Morning Post" reported.

A video of the incident was shared by the local police on Weibo - China's equivalent of Twitter - and went viral.

On social networks, Shen was nicknamed "superhero".

Shen, who works at the bank opposite, saw what was happening and was in the middle of a phone call to the emergency services, but then he noticed that the girl was about to fall from the roof, threw his phone and managed to catch her before she hit the concrete.

According to him, at first he did not know it was a baby.

"The truth is, I don't remember all the details," he told the "Chiangyang Evening News."

"I don't remember if my arms hurt. It was an instinct to grab her. I was lucky I was able to grab her in time. Otherwise I would have felt terrible."

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