Father throws six-month-old daughter off roof in stand-off over demolition before police save her life

Police have saved a six-month-old baby girl who was thrown off the roof of a shack in South Africa by her father who was protesting the demolition of an illegal township.

The 38-year-old South African man had climbed on top of his home with his baby daughter in the township of Kwadwesi, near Port Elizabeth, to prevent it from being demolished.