Firemen rescue near-naked man trapped inside chimney

Footage has emerged from China of a man in his underwear being freed from the inside of a chimney by firefighters.

In the video, filmed during the rescue in Anhui Province on Monday, firemen can be seen breaking down the wall of a kitchen on the ground floor to help the man climb out.

According to local media, the man fell into the hole from the seventeenth floor by accident and broke several bones in addition to considerable grazes and bruises.