Photos have shown the horrifying moment a mother was forced to launch her newborn baby from the fourth floor to save him from a fire.
The shocking incident happened at a residential building in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province in China when it caught fire on July 5.
Thick smoke billowed was seen billowing out the windows from the first to the fourth floor before the mum holds her baby in both hands from the fourth-floor window.
She can then be seen throwing a bed sheet from the window before people on the street held the sheet tight to catch the one-month-old baby in the makeshift parachute.
Mr Wang, a shop owner near the incident, told local news media that the fire was extinguished by volunteers before the fire rescue team arrived.
Mr Wang said: "There are many shops near us, and there are fire extinguishers in the shops. Everyone used dozens of fire extinguishers to put out the fire together, and the fire was extinguished in a short while."
Subsequently, fire rescue personnel arrived and rescued the residents in the house with a ladder, and both the mother and the baby were sent to hospital.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation and the baby is remarkably in good health.
In May, a dad was heard screaming "somebody catch my children" as he threw his daughter from the window of a blazing block of flats in Hampshire, UK.
Jay Payne, 26, was one of the occupants of the flats and was asleep on the top floor of the three-storey block with his wife and two daughters, aged seven and four.
He was woken up by a fire alarm and opened the door just to see smoke and flames spilling in.
Speaking to The Sun, Jay said: "The whole place went black. We were screaming at the top of our lungs for someone to help us.
"I chucked a mattress out the window and threw my kids out and then my wife and myself jumped.
"It was very traumatising... my four-year-old daughter has burns up her arms from her fingertips to her shoulders. The whole flat has gone - we've got nothing left."
