HEART-STOPPING MOMENT passersby catches baby who fell from second-story window ledge

This is the dramatic moment a passerby miraculously catches a one-year-old baby who fell from a second-storey window ledge.

CCTV cameras show the man, known as Mr Li, looking upwards in terror just before the infant drops into view in a street in China.

Despite pouring rain, the hero somehow manages to cling on to the baby just inches before it would have hit the ground.

Heart-in-mouth moment: Two men look up in horror as a baby teeters on a second-storey window ledge seconds before falling off

Terrifying: The men brace themselves to catch the baby as it drops into view in the CCTV footage

Heroic: One of the men, Mr Li, manages to cling onto the baby despite the pouring rain as a woman in the background screams in terror

The baby was spotted on the window ledge during a thunderstorm in Zhongshan City in Guangdong Province after apparently climbing out in search of its mother.

A group of onlookers rushed inside the building in the hope of rescuing the child.

Others put items including a sofa and cardboard boxes in the street below in an attempt to cushion the baby's fall as it teetered on the ledge.

Holding on tight: The baby was spotted on the window ledge during a thunderstorm in the Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan City of Guangdong Province after apparently climbing out in search of its mother

Mr Li said: 'I didn't think too much at the time. I was just afraid of failing to catch him.

'It was nothing but instinct to do so.'

The child was later placed in the arms of a woman, believed to its mother, who runs off cradling the baby.

The baby is cradled by a woman, believed to its mother, after the incident

-Dailymail