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.