Shocking footage has emerged from China of a young girl being carried to an ambulance after doctors were forced to amputate her legs to free from under a rock she got trapped under during a landslide.

The heartbreaking video, filmed in Ankang, Shaanxi Province last Wednesday, initially shows firefighters and doctors trying to free the four-year-old, but they can't free her broken legs from under the rock, meaning they were forced to take her legs.

According to local reports, the girl and her mother were caught in the landslide and were both injured by the tumbling rock.

The mother was freed relatively quickly, but her daughter was trapped with two badly broken legs.

The decision was made to amputate by doctors when it was established that nothing more could be done to free the girl.

Both are now in hospital.

Heartbreaking video, from China, of doctors cutting a girl's legs trapped under a huge stone to rescue her.

The footage, filmed in Ankang, Shaanxi Province last Wednesday, shows firefighters and doctors trying to rescue a four-year-old girl hit by a huge stone and trapped under it.

According to local news, the girl and her mum were hit by a huge stone rolling down the mountain because of landslide.

The girl's mum was rescued first, but the girl's legs got trapped under the stone and they were broken.

After one hour rescue, firefighters still couldn't release the girl from the stone. So doctors decided to cut her legs to save her life.

The girl and her mum were sent to hospital.