Sprinter saves falling toddler

Sprinter saves falling toddler

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): A former national sprint champion
caught a two-year-old child who fell 15 meters from an escalator
at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the New Straits Times
newspaper said yesterday.

G. Rajalingan, who represented Malaysia at the Olympic Games
in the 1960s, caught the boy when he lost his grip on the
escalator's handrail in the incident on Sunday, the newspaper
quoted a witness as saying.

The boy had apparently been playing with the handrail on the
ground floor when he was dragged up.

Rajalingam handed the unidentified toddler to the father, who
had been transfixed near the foot of the escalator throughout the
drama, the witness said.