Policmen and residents rescued a five-year-old boy who was stuck outside the window of a 12-floor building in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.

The boy climbed out the window and stood on a narrow edge of the building for half an hour, having been unable to climb back in.

Neighbours called the police, who broke into his home. 

Footage is from a surveillance camera. 

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