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Watch terrifying moment Chinese toddler falls from 5th-floor balcony ... onto quilt held up by neighbours below

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Chinese toddler Xiaojing is pictured falling from a fifth-floor balcony in Dongguan on Tuesday. Photo: Sina

A Chinese toddler playing hide-and-seek escaped unhurt after falling from a fifth-floor balcony when he was caught in a bed quilt held up by quick-thinking residents on the street below, mainland media reports.

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Chinese toddler Xiaojing is pictured falling moments before landing safely onto a bed quilt held up by residents after falling from a fifth-floor balcony in Dongguan. Photo: Sina
Chinese toddler Xiaojing is pictured falling moments before landing safely onto a bed quilt held up by residents after falling from a fifth-floor balcony in Dongguan. Photo: Sina
Dramatic video footage, which has been widely shared on mainland social media, captured the moment when the boy named Xiaojing, aged one and a half, fell from the apartment balcony on Tuesday and was caught in the quilt in the city of Dongguan in the southern province of Guangdong, Dongguan Television Station reported on Wednesday.

 

 

Xiaojing was spotted out on the balcony alone by his grandmother’s neighbours, after he locked his grandmother out of the room at her home where they were playing hide-and-seek together.

Police were called and asked neighbours to hold out four quilts on the street below the balcony to catch him in case he fell.

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Chinese toddler Xiaojing is embraced by his grandmother on the street after being caught in a bed quilt held up by neighbours after falling from her fifth-floor balcony. Photo: Sina
Chinese toddler Xiaojing is embraced by his grandmother on the street after being caught in a bed quilt held up by neighbours after falling from her fifth-floor balcony. Photo: Sina
Xiaojing escaped without injury after falling onto one of the quilts, just as police had arrived at the building to try to reach him on the balcony.
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