Millions online have been moved by a mother in China who was seriously injured in a gas explosion but managed to save her toddler son from danger.
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Huang Jiamei, a 38-year-old housewife from eastern China’s Zhejiang province, was cooking in the kitchen of her home when leaking gas exploded on October 14.
Her two-year-old son, Xu Nuo, was outside the kitchen’s closed door crying for her when the explosion happened. The door was blasted off and the child was trapped under it.
Footage from a home surveillance camera posted by her husband Xu Xiaohui shows Huang running out of the kitchen screaming in pain, but the first thing she did was retrieve her son.
Despite the skin peeling from her arms, she gently held up her son and put him down in a safe spot.
Huang then called Xu, and told neighbours to call an emergency hotline.
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Xu, who works as a hairstylist, immediately rushed home and was shocked to find that his wife’s hair was singed, her skin had fallen from her swollen hands and legs and her face was pale because of the burning heat.
