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That is the astonishing moment a gaggle of men rescued a toddler trapped in a sinking taxi before it plunged into icy waters.
Three men in Dagestan, Russia, have been praised for his or her heroic efforts after pulling a young boy to safety from a taxi that had veered off the road and right into a fast-flowing canal.
To avoid wasting the kid, they precariously hanged over a metal pipe across the October Revolution Canal in town of Makhachkala, footage from the incident reveals.
They lifted the young boy from an open window of the partly submerged vehicle because it floated downstream, stopping him from falling into the cold waters.
One in all the lads stripped right down to his underwear, despite freezing temperatures.
The kid was hoisted up and passed along by the three men towards the canal bank, returning safely to shore.
Eyewitnesses said the boy’s mother and the taxi driver, who were still trapped within the automotive, were later saved after rescuers entered the water with a rope to assist them, Russian news site Izvestia reported.
Taxi driver, Nurislam Ramazanov, told the outlet he had lost control of the automotive after it skidded when he attempted to avoid a parked automotive obstructing the road.
He added he was taking the mother and her child to the hospital when the incident happened, wherein his brake stopped working.
Nurislam described the incident and explained how the boy remained unscathed because of the rescuers.
He said: ‘The kid went out the window first. The blokes caught him. The kid, one might say, didn’t get wet because there was no water within the cabin. The child was dry.’
One in all the rescuers was named as Assadulla Magomedov, who previously trained at an MMA school in Makhachkala, which is called after the famous MMA coach, Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov.
Witnesses who saw the rescue mission have praised the three men for his or her quick-thinking amid a stressful situation.
Some referred to the incident as ‘an atypical day for Dagestan’, which is thought for its strong community ties.
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