Passer-by kicks off high heels and catches toddler who fell ten floors

But the toddler was in critical condition with internal bleeding and other unspecified injuries while the woman who saved her suffered a broken arm, China Central Television and the Xinhua News Agency said.

The girl, named Zhang Fangyu but known by the nickname Niu Niu, was in the care of her grandmother on Saturday afternoon when the older woman left the 10th-floor apartment outside the eastern city of Hangzhou to run an errand, media reports said.

Neighbours saw Niu Niu dangling from the apartment window for several minutes, Xinhua said, and when the girl fell, Wu Juping “kicked off her high-heeled shoes” and ran to catch the child.

“It was so urgent. I saw her when she was about to fall and rushed there, and after tens of seconds she fell off,” she said.

Wu, 31, said that when she saw the dangling girl she thought of her own seven-month-old son who had once fallen from a high chair and cut his mouth.

“I thought to myself ‘I should stretch my arms to her’.

“Because I am right here, I must get her.’ Then I made it. I caught her in my arms.”

The impact knocked Wu out and sent her crumbling to the ground along with breaking her left arm, the reports said.

CCTV quoted an unidentified doctor at the Children’s Hospital of Zhejiang Hospital as saying that a scan showed no damage to Niu Niu’s brain but that the girl’s abdomen was swollen in a sign of possible injury to organs.