Kind Resident Scales Bridge To Rescue Trapped Cat

This footage shows a bighearted passerby securing himself to a railing and scaling down the side of a bridge to rescue a trapped cat that had been stuck on a ledge for two days.

The incident was filmed on a bridge over the Griboyedov Canal in the north-western Russian city of Saint Petersburg and the footage was widely shared on social media.

According to local media, the cat became stuck on the bridge two days previously, but volunteers were unable to rescue it because it refused to come out of a narrow nook.