WATCH: Incredible moment suspected kidnapper tries to flee mob by leaping off building
DRAMATIC mobile phone footage has captured the moment a suspected kidnapper leaps from a residential building as he tries to escape an angry mob.
Suspected KIDNAPPER captured and beaten by angry mob
The viral footage shows the unnamed man trying to flee by climbing down the building's fire escape.
He climbs and holds on to railings before finally jumping down from the building and landing on a car, hurting himself in the process.
The suspected kidnapper was soon surrounded by more than a dozen local residents, who whacked him with bamboo sticks as punishment.
The man tried to escape down the front of the building
The incident took place in the city go Foshan, in South China’s Guangdong Province, following reports of an abductor following a lone six-year-old girl into the multi-storey building.
He is said to have tried to lure her away from her home, but was caught red-handed by the girl’s mother just as the young girl stepped into the building’s corridor.
The mother struggled with the abductor but managed to snatch her daughter back.
The incident took place in south China
Police are now looking into the incident
She then screamed at the top of her lungs for help and to alert her neighbours of the unwelcome intruder, who was already trying to escape.
Quick-thinking residents banded together and locked the ground-floor entrance.
When the police finally arrived, they first had to disperse angry residents before detaining the injured suspect.
He is now being investigated on suspicion of kidnapping.