Man in Giza, Egypt, catches boy who fell from a balcony mid-air

In Giza, Egypt, 25-year-old Ahmed Ragab caught a small boy who fell from a balcony: the drama unfolded last week in a narrow street, and a camera captured the rescue. The child was left unharmed.

Ahmed was waiting for his father outside a shop when he heard a child's scream from the other side of the street. Turning around, he saw a toddler falling toward the ground. A clothes rack hanging lower down slowed the fall, and the man's lightning-fast reaction did the rest: he instinctively rushed under the balcony and caught the boy in his arms a moment before he hit the asphalt.

“I wasn't thinking about myself,” Ahmed said, adding that he acted purely on instinct. It took him a while to grasp what had happened: he sat down with the boy on a mattress by the wall of the building while passers-by praised him for what he had done. “My nerves were at their limit, and luckily I had something to lean on,” he admitted.

In an interview with local media, the rescuer urged parents to keep a close eye on their children and warned against putting chairs and other objects on balconies that little ones can use to climb over the railing.

Around Prague, based on reporting by novinky.cz