Johannesburg: A 2-year-old girl survived without being injured after her mother threw her to a safe place when they escaped from a high-rise building in the city of Durban in South Africa during protests.
Mother, 26-year-old Manyoni Naledi, told Reuters on Wednesday that she was on the 16th floor when the fire began on Tuesday.
He ran down the stairs with his daughter.
Manyoni walked to the ledge on the road and threw a toddler to a group of people below when observers shouted in worries.
“After throwing it, I held my vaginal discharge, but they arrested him,” Remember outside the building when his daughter sat on his shoulder. “He keeps saying,” Mama you threw me there. “He is afraid.”
“What’s important for my daughter to get out of the situation … I can’t escape alone and leave her,” he said as the girl, wearing a red coat and a hood, babbling and clapping.
They stood on the road before the shops were burning and searched. South Africa was in the upheaval of one of the worst upheaval in the post-apartheid era, which began when former President Jacob Zuma was jailed last week because he failed to emerge to investigate corruption.
Protests, which began in the Province of Zuma Kwazulu-Natal on Saturday, immediately turned into mass looting, combustion and riots in Durban Province and Johannesburg, the commercial center of South Africa.
