Moment Mom saves her four children by throwing them off the third floor of a burning building in Turkey
- A video of the incident was shared online showing how the children are being rescued
- The mother drops her children out of a window while smoke flows out from behind her
- People in the street below holding out blankets to save the children from autumn
- Local media said that all children and the mother have recovered and are doing well
A woman rescued her four children from a burning building in Istanbul by throwing them out of a window on Wednesday.
In a video of the incident in the European Esenler district in the city, the mother is seen throwing her children down from a window on the third floor while black smoke escapes from the fire behind her.
All the children and the mother are doing well, Turkish media reported.
The footage, seen from someone looking down the street from below, shows each child falling from the third floor of a five-story building.
In the photo: A mother drops her child from a third-floor window of a burning building and is seen before being caught by the streets below.
The mother can be seen holding her children out the window and waiting for the people below to be ready for the catch before dropping them.
They are shown falling, past the window of a bridal shop and avoiding the canopy of a shop at the bottom, while volunteers pull out a blanket to catch them.
Bystanders were heard screaming amid alarm sounds, and some shouted at the woman not to drop the children.
After being caught by the people below, the children were transported to ambulances, and Turkish media reported that they were not injured.
The mother was admitted to hospital as a precautionary measure and subsequently discharged, according to news reports.
The fire, which originated in an electrical panel, was extinguished. Two other children and two older adults were also rescued.
In this image taken from a video provided by IHA, one of the four children is thrown from an apartment window at bystanders below after a fire broke out on Thursday, February 25, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey.
One of the neighbors who saw the rare rescue said: “First, black smoke started coming out,” according to Daily Sabah, a Turkish newspaper.
Then the children started shouting from the windows. And we open the blankets. A woman throws the children down from above. So we caught four kids with blankets. ‘
The fire was later extinguished by firefighters, the newspaper reported.