A group of traffic police officers in north-central Nghe An Province have been hailed by Vietnamese netizens for helping a two-year-old baby, who got lost and wandered on a national highway at night, to return home.

It happened at 7:30 pm on June 26, when the traffic police officers were patrolling a section of Ho Chi Minh Highway passing through Tan Ky District in Nghe An and saw the two-year-old child walking alone in the middle of the road.

“It was already dark at that time, with no street lights and a lot of traffic on that section,” said Captain Nguyen Anh Tuan, one of the three traffic police officers. 

“We looked around but did not see the baby’s parents anywhere."

The three officers immediately signaled vehicles to slow down and carried the baby to the side of the road, according to Tuan.

As Tuan ran to a nearby house to ask for information about the child, a resident recognized the girl and showed the officer her family’s address.

The patrol team then brought the child home under the guidance of the local resident.

In a thank-you letter sent to the traffic police officers, the child’s mother said that at the time of the incident, she went out to buy pig feed and let the girl play at home.

“You [the traffic police officers] are my family’s saviors,” the mother said in the letter.

“Had it not been for you to find my child in time, she might have been in trouble."

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