Three-year-old boy died last Monday after his mother threw him from the 22nd floor of a building in Chongqing, southwest China.

According to a police report cited by local media, a 37-year-old woman surnamed He, had a manic episode during which he first attacked his mother-in-law with a knife and then threw his son out of the apartment window.

The mother-in-law survived the attack and is in the hospital receiving medical care. Meanwhile, the woman has been detained by the police and the case is under investigation.

The moment when I throw the baby out the window It went viral on Chinese social media.

In the video you can see a woman holding a child and screaming out the window: “I am sick” and his son tries to support himself with his legs. The photo also shows another woman inside the apartment, apparently her mother-in-law, statically watching what is happening.

A few minutes later A woman threw a little boy out the window while some people watched from below.

The video ends as emergency personnel and police officers enter the apartment and subdue the woman.

According to a source familiar with the case, there was an air mattress on the floor, but the woman threw her son out of another window, under which There was no air mattress.

Some neighbors said that the woman even tried to throw her second child out of the window, but was quickly stopped by rescuers.