A man dragged a boy by his feet out of a building as a 4.3-magnitude earthquake shook a city in southern China.

CCTV footage filmed in the city of Heyuan in Guangdong Province on February 11 shows a shop suddenly shaking when a boy sitting on a sofa watching a video on a phone.

A man then ran to lift the boy up and held him upside-down to get out of the shop immediately.

According to the man named Ye, he is a staff member in the shop and the boy is the shop owner's son.

Since Ye was worried about the boy's safety when the earthquake rocked the shop, he lifted the boy up subconsciously and did not think too much.

The boy was not injured at all.

The video was provided by local media with permission.

2月11日10时41分，在广东省河源市源城区（北纬23.76度，东经114.64度）发生4.3级左右地震。监控录像记录下了惊险一幕：一名男子着急想带着孩子逃生，直接把孩子拎起来撒腿就跑了出去。据当事男子叶先生介绍，他是店铺的一名员工，被拎的孩子是店铺老板的儿子，因为地震事发突然，他担心孩子的安危才这样下意识地去拎起孩子往外跑，是一个正常的反应，没有时间去考虑其他的。往外跑的时候，孩子手里的手机碰到了玻璃上，孩子一点事儿也没有。