Firefighters in China have rescued a man trapped in mud.

In the clip, filmed in Chizhou City in eastern Anhui Province on June 22, a fireman tied to a rope crawls onto a plank to approach the trapped man despite heavy rain.

His face is above the surface, allowing him to keep breathing.

The fireman drags him onto the plank and three other firefighters help to pull them back to the dry land.

A paramedic checks the man before he is carried onto a stretcher.

Fortunately, he was not seriously injured.