A brave man rescued a toddler that was hanging out of an eight-floor apartment window, this act of earnt him a badge for heroism.

Footage from May 11 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, shows a 3-year-old hanging onto an open window.

Sabit Shontakbaev is then seen climbing out of the window of the flat below. He then grabs the girl and manages to help her inside of the seventh-floor flat window.

The 3-year-old had been left home alone and climbed out the window after playing with her toys nearby.

The girl was alone in the house. She placed soft toys and pillows by the window, then climbed over the window sill and hung on the ledge. The child could not get inside on his own.

The incident was seen by one of the residents of the house, Sabit Shontakbaev. He went up to the seventh floor to the neighbors and climbed out of the apartment window to catch the girl. As the man himself said, at that moment he did not think about anything other than saving her.
The man was awarded the badge "For heroism in emergency situations."

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