Melbourne: A 27-year-old woman, trapped in a fire in her second-storey apartment in Australia, dropped her two-day-old baby and toddler from a window to rescuers.

The woman had climbed onto the windowsill in her home in suburban Lakemba in Sydney's south-west, unable to escape fire when the firefighters arrived for rescue last night. She dropped her 2-day-old baby and 2-year-old toddler down to a passerby from second floor, 6 metre above the ground, The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Friday.