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Rescue workers and family members of a suicidal woman made a dramatic intervention when the woman tried to end her life.

A woman by the name of Sheng Fi had smothered her four-month-old nephew, then threw him off the roof of a nine-storey building after a bitter argument with her sister-in-law.

She then tried to end her own life by jumping off the same building in the city of Zhanjiang in China's Guangdong province.

Rescue workers were called in after Sheng was spotted on the roof of the building.

They then informed her daughter, hoping that she would be able to talk Sheng out of jumping.

As she tried to hurl herself off the building, family members and rescue workers convinced her to get off the ledge and grabbed her the moment she did, clinging on desperately to her legs.

Sheng confessed to the murder after she was brought off the ledge.

A police spokesman confirmed her confession and said it was likely that she would be sentenced to death.

With one of the highest suicide rates in the world, China places ninth in the World Health Organisation's (WHO) list of countries by suicide rate.

A Chinese government spokesman confirmed last year that suicide was the biggest killer among 15 to 34-year-olds and there are over two million attempted suicides per year.