A New York bus driver has become a surprise hero after saving a seven-year-old girl who accidentally fell three stories from a Brooklyn apartment building.

New York – A New York bus driver has become a surprise hero after saving a seven-year-old girl who accidentally fell three storeys from a Brooklyn apartment building.

“I just said ‘Please, let me catch her, lord, please let me catch her,” Stephen St. Bernard told local NY1 television about Monday’s rescue in the Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighbourhood.

A video of the incident taken on a cellphone and broadcast by the channel showed the girl standing on an air conditioning unit outside her apartment window more than 10 metres from the ground.

Amid cries from people watching the scene unfold from the ground, the girl fell into the arms of St Bernard.

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