This is the heartwarming moment a teacher and a pupil rescued a kitten with its head stuck in a can.

The kindhearted passersby spotted the helpless orange cat in the middle of a dirt road in Bangkok, Thailand.

Footage shows the woman and the schoolboy walking towards the struggling feline on March 4.

They carefully removed the red tin from the animal's head and took it to a nearby school.

The kitten was then placed inside a cardboard box and fed some bread.

It was weak but reportedly unharmed.

The teacher said: 'One of my students told me they found the mother cat lifeless on the roadside after it was hit by a car, and they saw its kitten still alive.

'I went to the area where they had discovered the cat, but when we tried to catch it, it ran into the nearby woods, so we scattered some food, hoping it would return.

'The next day, one of the kids rode past the same spot on his motorcycle and saw the kitten again, so he reported it to us, and we went there to rescue it.'