Footage has emerged from China of a four-year-old boy with his head stuck in an L-shaped plastic pipe.

The video, captured in Yueqing, Zhejiang Province on Tuesday, shows a man carrying the young boy with a plastic pipe on his head.

When his parents found him, he had been already been stuck in the pipe for 30 minutes.

Firefighters managed to get the pipe off his head in 20 minutes when they visited the fire station.