WATCH: Hero policeman catches three-year-old falling from third floor balcony
A quick-thinking police officer is being praised as a hero after he put his body on the line to save a young child falling from a third floor balcony in Egypt.
Egypt's Interior Ministry released a video of the incident this week showing three on-duty police officers standing guard outside a bank in the southern city of Assiut.
Their attention is suddenly drawn to a third-floor apartment balcony above them where they find the boy holding on for dear life.
The men initially grabbed a blanket to catch the boy, but just moments before he falls, one of the men changed the rescue plan and put his own body on the line.
In a split second, the child comes crashing to the ground, knocking the officer off his feet.
The ministry said in a statement that the child was unharmed but one of the policemen was injured and was sent to a nearby hospital for treatment.
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