GWANGYANG , South Korea – A woman in her 40s carried out a perilous rescue in South Korea’s South Jeolla Province on Jan 19 , climbing down the exterior wall of an apartment building to reach her three young children trapped inside their burning home.

The fire broke out at about 5.23pm local time at a fifth-floor unit in Gwangyang, leaving three girls under the age of five stranded inside. Their mother could not enter through the front door because of heavy smoke and flames.