Neighbours catch toddler falling from balcony in heart-stopping video

Shocking footage emerges from China showing the moment a three-year-old boy was saved after falling from the fifth floor of an apartment block in China.

Neighbours gathered below and caught the toddler in a blanket.

"I looked up and saw a little child was dangling up there, my first reaction was to find something to catch him," said Zhu Yanhui, one of the rescuers.

"I thought about rushing over there and catch him with my bare hands, but that would not have worked."

The blanket method saved the boy's life and, remarkably, he was uninjured in the incident.