Street vendor catches baby falling from second floor of building

It was heart-stopping moment when a man caught a baby as he fell from a second-floor window onto a busy street in Southern China.

The street vendor spotted the frightened tot teetering on a window ledge, after he apparently climbed out during a heavy thunderstorm looking for his mother.

Mr Li - as he has being named locally – desperately rushed to the boy with his arms outstretched, determined to break his fall.

He is lives in the building opposite in Xiaolan town, Zhongshan city of Guangdong province.

Other residents piled up pieces of cardboard and a sofa on the ground in the hope of breaking the infant's fall.

The boy eventually toppled off the ledge and was safely caught by Li, then bundled up and hurried away by his distraught mother.

Mr Li said afterwards: "I didn't think too much at the time. I was just afraid of failing to catch him.

"Some people put down cardboard to avoid serious injuries to the baby if I fail to catch him. It was nothing but human instinct to do so."

-The Mirror