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VIDEO: Passers-by catch toddler after she falls out 5th-floor window

The off-duty couriers spotted the child on a windowsill in China – and were able to stop her from falling to the ground.

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FOOTAGE HAS EMERGED of a dramatic incident in China – where a toddler was saved from near-certain death by a group of passers-by who caught her as she fell from a fifth-storey apartment window.

The two-year-old had been staying left alone in the apartment, in the city of Ninghai, when she climbed onto a windowsill – attracting the attention of some couriers below, who were taking a break from work and who heard her crying.

Seeing her lose her balance, the men gathered under the window – and were able to cushion the girl’s fall and stop her from hitting the concrete below.

Reuters reported that the girl sustained one bruise close to her eye, but was otherwise unharmed.

Two of the men were treated for injuries, one having hurt his arm in bracing the child’s fall, while another sustained a minor neck injury.

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