15 mth old baby survives 7 storey fall

PARIS - A 15-MONTH-OLD baby girl had been playing unsupervised with her four-year-old sister on Monday when she somehow fell out of the window, a spokesman for local city police said.

A young man saw the baby starting to fall and alerted his father, who raced to get into position, arms outstretched, to catch her after she hit the awning, the daily Le Parisien reported.

'He must have played rugby for years to have developed reflexes like that,' a bystander said.

The owner of the cafe said it was a stroke of luck he had decided to leave the awning open that afternoon. 'I usually close it to stop it catching fire as people tend to throw their cigarette butts onto it,' he told the television station i-tele. LINK