WATCH: In hair-raising video, Mother darts in to save toddler son as he stumbles off a hole in a balcony railing

video of a mor heroically saving her four-year-old child from falling over side of a balcony in Columbia on Wednesday set social media abuzz. 

In an act that is both heroic and miraculous, a mor by virtue of her great reflexes is seen rushing to grab her son from falling off four floors. incident was captured by a CCTV camera from a reception area at a construction company ‘Monserrate’ in Columbia. 

As per video,  boy and his mor are shown walking out of an elevator followed by a delivery man. As mor is shown waiting for someone to open a door, her curious child walks over to railings of staircase and puts his hand on what he thinks is a sheet of glass. 

While she is busy browsing her phone, child promptly walks over to a railing next to elevator and crouches down, straining to get a good look at what’s below.  While crouching, he loses his balance and stumbles forward. 

Seeing her child fall, brave mor quickly throws herself over edge of railing to grab her son with delivery man quickly running to floor below to help save boy.

video was shared on Reddit where users discussed mor's brave save. Some even argued railings were t qualified for safety standards.

"thing happened to child, he did t have any of injury, fortunately," said building manr Juan Franco. "You have to credit instinct of this mor, how she mans to protect her son."

child was lucky eugh to escape without injuries, however, according to a media source,  building manment later placed a cardboard box in front of guardrail hole and surrounded metal bars with tape.