Truly bizarre footage has emerged from China of a young boy wearing handcuffs into a school exam because, after finding them in his parents' wardrobe, he put them on and couldn't get them off.

The video, captured in Zhoukou, Henan Province last Thursday, shows the boy with one hand caught in the handcuffs before local police officers cut them off him.

According to local reports, the boy had a primary school exam so opted to have the officers cute the handcuffs off him after the test.

Bizarre footage, from China, of a boy going for exams in school with handcuffs locking on hand.

In the video, captured in Zhoukou, Henan Province last Thursday, the boy's one hand being locked by a pair of handcuffs, while firefighters cut it down for him.

The boy found the abandoned handcuffs in the wardrobe at home. He accidentally locked it on his hand and couldn't take it out, when he played with it.

Since it was during the mid-term examination in primary school, he had to wear the handcuffs to attend the exams.