Shocking footage has emerged from China of a 13-year-old girl's face after she was shot with a nail-gun that her seven-year-old cousin 'filled with ball bearings while playing with'.

The footage, captured in Yichun, Jiangxi Province last Wednesday, shows her injuries and the 3D computer scan taken to locate ball bearings in her face so doctors can operate.

According to local reports, the girl's male younger cousin was playing with a nail gun left laying around from a family decoration business on the 8th January when he placed some ball bearings in it and fired.

15 of what are believed to be 24 balls have been recovered from her face during an initial operation. Luckily the shrapnel is reported to have avoided any major blood vessels and not caused life-changing injuries.