A little girl miraculously survived after falling from a 12th floor apartment building in India.

Footage shows the girl falling through a tin roof on the ground floor of the building in Surat city.

Residents in the area rushed the girl to a hospital nearby where she is being treated.

Doctors said the girl will survive despite having multiple fractures in her hands and legs and some internal injuries as a consequence of the accident.

This is the stunning moment a girl slips from her 12th floor apartment but survives thanks to an asbestos roof which broke her fall.

The 13-year-old girl slipped while drying clothes on the 12th floor of the Nature Valley apartment in Surat in north-western India on April 13.

An asbestos roof on the ground floor, which had been put up to cover the car parking area, broke her fall helping her survive.

People in the area rushed the girl to a hospital where she is under treatment.

Doctors said the girl had suffered multiple fractures in her hands and legs and some internal injuries as well. But she would survive and make a good recovery, they said.