Children thrown from burning home
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7284185.stm Version 0 of 1. A mother in the Canadian city of Montreal has saved the lives of her seven children by throwing them from the window of a burning building. The fire is reported to have started on the ground floor. As flames and smoke spread, the mother gathered the children - aged two to 10 - by a second-storey window. By the time firefighters arrived, she had thrown the children several metres onto a snowbank and jumped. All are being treated at a Montreal hospital. None of the injuries is life-threatening, police said. Neighbours praised the woman's instinct and courage. "She's an extraordinary woman," neighbour Jehu Gauthier told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. |