A five-year-old boy in southern China survived a fall from a sixth floor apartment when his trousers snagged on a washing line, a news report said on Tuesday.
The boy, who fell after climbing to a window of the apartment, was snagged by the trousers and suspended upside down outside an apartment on the fifth floor.
He hung precariously in the air outside the apartment block in Jiangmen, Guangdong province, until firemen were able to reach him with ladders.
Firemen also had to rescue the boy’s father who had climbed onto a balcony on the fourth floor and grabbed hold of his son’s arm to stop him from falling, the Hong Kong edition of The China Daily said.