Kind-hearted passersby helped a drowning woman who fell into a dirty canal after tripping on the edge.<br /><br />The street food vendor was walking along the waterway when she mistook the side for a set of steps, which she tried to walk down.<br /><br />She then plunged 6ft into the choppy water below in Bangkok, Thailand, last Friday (October 18) morning.<br /><br />Video recorded by a boat passenger Khun Tip shows, how onlookers donned orange life jackets and leaped into the water to drag the woman to safety.<br /><br />Khun Tip said that she was shocked to see the vendor fell to the canal but relieved after she was rescued.<br /><br />She said: "The vendor mistook the side of the canal for a step and fell into the water."<br /><br />"She was drowning for almost half a minute and I was so worried at that moment but she floated up and was then rescued by the people."
