A five-year-old boy dangling by his head from a four storey residential building was rescued by fire-fighters in China yesterday, state media reported.

The child became trapped after falling through the security bars of a window.

An unidentified man used a ladder to climb onto the window grate one storey below and propped the boy up with his shoulder.

Fire-fighters sliced through an iron bar with a saw, and pulled the boy up to safety.

It's not clear how the boy got stuck.

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