The footage filmed in West Sumatra province, shows a car owner trying to get a ginger kitten out of his car engine.

"I heard the meowing when I was about to start the car. I opened the car cover and saw a kitten inside," said Ryu Rio.

Rio admitted that he panicked when his hands couldn't catch the cat. "I tried to put my hand in, but the place was too narrow. Thank goodness, the kitten got out of the engine by jumping down from there," he added.

Car owner in Indonesia found a kitten trapped in a car engine.

Footage filmed in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra province, shows the car owner trying to get the ginger kitten out of the car engine side lines.

Ryu Rio, the car and cat owner, was calling the kitten to come closer so he could be caught..

But kittens move to hard to reach places.

"I heard the meowing of the kitten when I was about to start the car. I opened the car cover and saw a kitten inside," Rio said.

Rio admitted that he panicked when his hands couldn't catch the cat. "I tried to put my hand in, but the place was too narrow. Thank goodness, the kitten gets out of the car engine by jumping down from there," added Rio.

Footage filmed on Friday, September 10.