The little girl became trapped after she squeezed her body through the bars that make up the facade of the apartment complex located in Daye, Hubei province, central China. When she attempted to bring her head through it became stuck leaving her balancing awkwardly on the outside of building.

In fact, her head being stuck may have prevented her from falling the 24 floors to the ground.

According to local media reports obtained by the Daily Mail, the alarm was raised on Saturday after the girl had apparently been locked in on her own at her home and attempted to free herself. Fortunately a neighbor heard the little girl crying and notified authorities.



Firefighters and police broke into the flat, while a local resident, suspended by a rope tied around his waist, climbed out of an adjacent window to help the child.

He put his arm around the child as she teetered on the edge of the railings, and wrapped a blanket behind her, to take some weight off her feet.

Her shoes were barely on anymore after standing for some time on the narrow rail, her head stuck and bent forward through the bars.

Emergency services eventually got access to the terrified little girl from a window close to where she was stuck. They used bolt cutters to free her before carefully pulling her back to safety.