A four-year-old girl hanging precariously by her head from railings of a second floor balcony in China has been rescued by emergency services. Passers-by called the police immediately after noticing the four-year-old, who was home alone, crying as she hung from the balcony rails last Friday. “I drove by with my friends in the morning and happened to hear the girl crying. Looking up, I saw her neck stuck in the protective rails and so I soon called police,” said Zheng Shuqi, a resident of Xiaochang city in Hubei. Residents reacted quickly. Receiving no response from within the flat they used a ladder from a nearby store to prop up the child’s legs. A police officer then succeeded in freeing the child after clambering onto the railings himself. The young girl was taken to hospital where doctors said she was unharmed aside from a slight abrasion on her cheek.
