Mother pushes baby to safety seconds before huge concrete slab smashes onto her head

Shocking footage has shown a mum manage to push her baby to safety seconds before a flying concrete block crashed into her head.
CCTV caught the horrific moment the slab knocked the woman to the ground as she manoeuvred a pushchair with her young child inside.

The 31-year-old miraculously survived, but she was rushed to hospital in St Petersburg, Russia, with serious head injuries where she is believed to be in a grave condition.

The woman was hit after the concrete slab flew off a balcony as she pushed her child towards a door to a residential building on Yaroslav Gashek Street.

A split second earlier her baby had been placed in its pushchair directly in the spot where the block landed.

Police are investigating and are looking for witnesses to the incident.

The mother lays on the ground after being seriously hurt by the concrete slab

A criminal case has been opened over suspicions the building had not been correctly maintained.