Death defying woman saved by electric cables

A woman is lucky to be alive after falling from a fifth floor window she was cleaning.

The woman, in Benxi, Liaoning Province, cheated death when electric cables below broke her fall from a residential building on Saturday, leaving her unconscious.

The emergency services were immediately called and when firefighters arrived at the scene, they found the motionless woman suspended in mid air and dangling upside down. Her legs were tangled in the electric wires, which were situated between the second and third floor of the building and she was unconscious after fainting.

It took the firemen less than ten minutes to free the 50-year-old woman, and bring her back to the land of the living. Fortunately the woman suffered no serious injuries from the fall.

A family member revealed that the woman accidentally fell out the building when she was cleaning her windows at home.