Watch the moment two guys passingby catches a baby after it slipped from second-story window ledge in pouring rain while looking for its mother in China.

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.

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. watch video below