Social networking sites have a video clip showing the moment of the fall of a 3-year-old boy from the sixth floor in Chongqing, a southern China city. The residents managed to save the child with a cloth cover, and the child fell down and was unhurt.
One eyewitness said, as China National Central Television (CNBC) said it heard a scream that there was a child hanging from the balcony, which only came from the cover and was passed by the passers-by waiting for the child who fell happily in the cover that everyone grabbed from the sides.
"I looked up and saw a little boy hanging out there," said Zhou Yanhui, who was among many people who helped save the boy. "My first reaction was to find something to massage, I thought of rushing there and picking it up with my hand but that would not work."
"I have been holding the blanket with the others, all the time and keeping my eyes on the child," said Zhu, "I looked at the void and wondered if we could hold it safely." "My only thought was to keep it safe."