Child survives autumn from 12th-floor balcony thanks to ‘Hero’ delivery driver

A delivery driver in Vietnam is being called a hero after he miraculously caught a child who fell from a balcony on the 12th floor.

Nguyen Ngoc Morning, 31, was sitting in his truck waiting to deliver a package to a high-rise complex in Hanoi on Sunday, when he heard a child crying and a woman screaming overhead. He told the news organization Anninhthudo, according to the Evening Standard, that he initially ignored the commotion as just a child having a tantrum.

But when Manh realized that the people on the street were panicking and screaming, he lowered the window and looked up. To his horror, he saw a girl swinging 50 meters in the air, VN Express International reported.

The heartbeat moment was captured on video and shared on social media.

Morning, himself a father, immediately jumped out of his truck. Trying to assess where the girl might fall, he climbed a 6-foot wall between where he was standing and the apartment complex.

“I climbed the wall and saw that it could fall on the metal roof of the house used to store electrical generators for the complex, so I tried to climb on top of it,” Manh told VN Express. “I did it, but I couldn’t stand it because the roof was crooked.”

When the girl lost control over the porch railing and plummeted, Manh slipped. But he threw himself forward and, surprisingly, grabbed the child.

She wasn’t crying, he said, but blood was dripping from her mouth.

“She looked a lot like my daughter at home. I was so confused, I just managed to say to her: ‘Please, please, I’m here now’ ”, said Manh to VN Express International.

The girl was taken to a hospital, where doctors treated her for a hip dislocation, but said she had no other injuries. Morning twisted his arm to catch it.

Many on social media hailed Manh as a hero, but he told VN Express that he doesn’t care about the label. He said he just wants to “do good”.

He told Anninhthudo that he felt no comfort in his rescue effort until he returned home to hug his own daughter, who is about the same age as the girl he saved, according to the Evening Standard.