A six-year-old boy was saved from certain death by his ears, which prevented him from falling from a high-rise apartment block.
Adventurous Ming Ming managed to get his head stuck in window bars of his home in Yinchang, China.
Crowds gathered after hearing his screams and rescuers moved into save the child from an eight storey drop.
An onlooker said: ‘The only thing stopping him from plunging to the ground below was the fact his head was trapped between two window bars.’
Once inside the flat firefighters quickly used a hydraulic pressure expander to force the bars apart and pulled Ming Ming back into the apartment.
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