Hero neighbour saves girl hanging from balcony by her neck

Footage shows the moment a hero neighbour climbed onto the next-door balcony to help a little girl who had slipped and was hanging from the railings by her neck.

A shocking video shows the child desperately trying not to fall with her head trapped in the gap beneath the balcony railing of a residential building in south-western China on 16 October.

The neighbour risks his own life as he steps out his window, then carefully moves over to the balcony below the one where the child was trapped while barefoot and without any safety gear.

But the railing where she was stuck was too far up for him to reach so he stood beneath her instead to support her legs while awaiting firefighters' help.

In the video, rescuers can be seen finally reaching her balcony and carefully pulling her back inside through the gap.