Hero bystanders prevented a little girl from falling through a 12th-floor window in China.

The hair-raising rescue happened in Fujian, southern China, after the three-year-old girl managed to weave her way through the protective grill on the apartment block window.

Footage shows the child, dressed in a pink pyjama, dangling through the small gap in the window shield on Saturday.

She was only held on by her head before neighbours and a security guard rushed to help.

They can be seen balancing a chair underneath the girl to take her weight of her head and prevent her from falling down from the 12th-floor flat.

The bystanders risked their own lives by daringly reaching out of the window below the youngster as others clung onto their legs while waiting for the emergency crews.

The little girl’s mother is said to have left her alone in the apartment while she went food shopping.

Another clip appears to show the firefighters cut through the apartment’s door to get inside.

The child was reportedly taken to the hospital as a precaution, but was unhurt.

In London, a young girl was rescued after dangling from a window for at least nine minutes.

The three-year-old clung to a window ledge above shops on Ilford High Street, east London, on July 11 afternoon.

Underneath, a police officer and a stranger prepared to catch her as onlookers screamed in horror, with someone yelling ‘hurry up.’

When the little girl fell, she was caught by the stranger who had ran out from a neighbouring window.

He was later named as dad-of-two Mohamed Jesil, who told he ran out ‘on instinct’ after hearing the shouting outside.

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