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A man has been hailed a hero after he saved a three-year-old girl from falling from an eighth-floor window.
The toddler had used cushions and toys to climb to the window ledge before she slipped, and was left hanging from her fingertips.
She was reportedly left home alone, in Kazakhstan’s capital Nur-Sultan, while her mum went out shopping.
A huge crowd gathered beneath and watched in horror as she clung to the ledge.
Sabit Shontakbaev, 37, and a friend were on the way to work when they noticed the commotion.
The father-of-four rushed into the building and knocked on the door of the apartment below the girl’s.
He then made his way to the window.