Incredible & scary moment showing a young Vietnamese girl climbing on her balcony and ultimately falling from 12-stories up.
Fortunately for the young girl, a delivery driver, Nguyen Ngoc Manh, was waiting below to save her.
VN Express International reports:
“At around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, locals near an apartment complex on Nguyen Huy Tuong Street saw a little girl climbing over a 12th-floor balcony railing. Manh, a shipper, was sitting in his car parked on the complex grounds when he heard the sound of a child crying.
At first, he thought they were cries of a baby on tantrum, but realized a minute later that it was something different. Multiple fearful screams and shouting soon echoed around him, so he rolled down the windows to take a good look outside. As he looked up the apartment complex, he was spooked to see the child "dangling on the 12th floor, about to fall down."
He ran outside, climbed over the two-meter wall between him and the apartment building, looking for where the child would possibly land. "I scaled the wall and saw that she could fall onto the metallic roof of the house used to store electric generators for the complex, so I tried to climb on top of it. I made it, but couldn’t stand firmly as the roof was crooked," Manh said, adding that he regretted not being able to find a better spot to catch the child.
The child was around 50 m off the ground, while the roof was about 3 m off it. As he stood on the roof, Manh slipped off his footing, the same time the child started stumbling down. So he flung himself forward and catch her, the impact leaving a dent on the roof. The child was not crying, only staring at Manh, blood oozing from her mouth.”
Manh says handed the girl over to a security guard, who rushed her to a hospital.
The New York Post reports that “Doctors at National Children’s Hospital said the girl dislocated her hip but suffered no other injuries.
Manh says he’s no hero, he just did what anyone else would do in that situation, saying “I don’t see myself as a hero. I just want to do good.”