Chen Xiaoli saves a three-year-old neighbor girl trapped outside the fifth floor of a residential building by climbing with her bare hands and feet and no safety gear, in Huizhou, Guangdong province, on Saturday night. [Photo from web]

Woman climbs five-story building with bare hands to save toddler

Scenes of heroes flying over the eaves and running on the walls of a building are a regular feature in Chinese kung fu films. But the actions of a woman in South China's Guangdong province rendered fantasy into heroic reality.

Chen Xiaoli, 28, climbed a residential building with her bare hands and feet and no safety gear to save a three-year-old neighbor trapped outside on the fifth floor of a building in Huizhou, Guangdong province, at 9 pm Saturday, People's Daily reported.

Chen held the girl for an hour beside the window rails until firefighters came to the rescue.

Chen Xiaoli. [Photo from Sina Weibo]

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