A delivery driver in Vietnam is being called a hero after he miraculously caught a toddler who fell from a 12th-floor balcony.
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Nguyen Ngoc Manh, 31, was sitting in his truck, waiting to deliver a package to a residence in Hanoi on Sunday, Feb 28, when he heard a child crying and a woman screaming overhead.
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He said that he initially brushed off the commotion as just a kid having a tantrum.
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But when Manh noticed people on the street panicked and shouting, he rolled down his window and looked up. To his horror he saw a little girl dangling 164-feet in the air, VN Express International reported.
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The heart-stopping moment was captured on video and shared on social media.
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Manh, a father himself, immediately exited his truck. Trying to gauge where the girl may land, he climbed a 6-foot wall between where he was stopped and the apartment complex.
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\”I scaled the wall and saw that she could fall onto the metallic roof of the house used to store electric generators for the complex, so I tried to climb on top of it,\” Manh told VN Express.
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\”I made it, but couldn’t stand firmly, as the roof was crooked.\”
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As the girl lost her grip on the balcony railing and started falling, Manh slipped. But he flung himself forward and caught the toddler.
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She wasn’t crying, he said, but blood was dripping from her mouth.
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\”She looked so much like my child at home. I was so confused, only able to tell her, \’Please, please, I’m here now,\’\” Manh told VN Express International.
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The little girl was taken to a hospital, where doctors treated her for a dislocated hip, but said she had no other injuries.
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Manh sprained his arm catching her.Â
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Many on social media hailed Manh as a hero, but he told VN Express he doesn’t care for the label. He said he just wants to \”do good.\”