9 Million Watch Video in Shock as Burned Chinese Mother Screams in Pain While Protecting Toddler

Millions of people online have been moved by a mother in China who was seriously injured in a gas explosion but managed to save her young son from danger.

Huang Jiamei, a 38-year-old housewife from Zhejiang province in eastern China, was cooking in the kitchen of her home when a gas leak exploded on October 14.

Her two-year-old son, Xu Nuo, was outside the closed kitchen door crying for her when the explosion occurred. The door was thrown open and the boy was trapped underneath.

Footage from a home surveillance camera posted by her husband Xu Xiaohui shows Huang running out of the kitchen screaming in pain, but the first thing she did was retrieve her son.

Even though the skin was peeling off his arms, he gently picked up his son and placed him in a safe place.

Huang then called Xu and told neighbors to call an emergency hotline.

Xu, who works as a hairstylist, immediately rushed home and was shocked to discover that his wife’s hair was singed, skin had fallen off her swollen hands and legs, and her face was pale due to the scorching heat.