THIS is the shocking moment an elderly man is left dangling from a clothes drying rack, after falling from a 15th storey flat.
The man, reportedly in his eighties, was left stunned when his terrifying fall was broken by the clothes rack on the seventh storey, saving him from plunging to his death.
The man was left lying on his back with his legs hanging in mid-air while he awaited his rescue, with onlookers worried the rack would break any second under his weight.
A brave security guard climbed down the outside of the high-rise building in the city of Nanjing in Jiangsu province in China, to help him.
The guard tied a fire hose around his waist and carefully lowerd himself from a window above to reach him.
Witnesses said the man accidentally fell from the 15th floor of a residential building and became stuck on a clothes drying rack outside a seventh-floor window.
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The rescuer was identified as Zhang Wei, 32, the head of the residential complex security team, who said he rushed to the scene after receiving a call for help.
Zhang said that when he arrived, the elderly man was already hanging outside the seventh-floor window and was at risk of plunging to the ground below at any moment.
He said the seventh-floor flat was empty and that metal security bars fitted to the sixth-floor windows which made it impossible to reach the man from below, leaving access only from above.
An eighth-floor resident opened their door, allowing Zhang to carry out the rescue.
The quick-thinking guard removed a fire hose from a fire hydrant, tied it around his waist and, with assistance from other guards and the eighth-floor resident, climbed down from the window towards the elderly man.
The footage shows Zhang gripping the window ledge as he lowers himself, steps onto the sill below and pulls the elderly man back inside the flat.
Zhang said the elderly man remained conscious throughout the rescue.
He said the descent took about one minute because he felt the rescue needed to be completed as quickly as possible for both the elderly man and himself.
After being brought back inside, the elderly man was taken to hospital by emergency medical workers.
A property manager said the elderly man remains conscious and is continuing to receive treatment in hospital.
It follows the shocking moment when neighbours spotted a woman dangling from a 10th floor balcony as she appears to almost lose her grip.
The heart-stopping moment was captured in China, as onlookers watched on in horror at the woman attempting shimmy herself to a safer location.
A shirtless man can be seen talking to the woman through the window before he disappears from view.
Holding her phone, she then starts her descent to the floor below, climbing down drain pipes and windowsills.
The woman appears to slide down a water pipe to a neighbour’s window, when she bangs on for help.
Fortunately, the person inside opens up and helps the woman to safety.
Local reports claim a cheating husband panicked when his wife returned home early and pushed his mistress out onto the balcony to prevent her from being discovered.