This is the amazing moment a baby monkey is born via a caesarean section, minutes after its mother was killed in a car accident.

The pregnant monkey had been hit by a vehicle outside a temple in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand, and a witness rushed over and performed the surgery with a scalpel.

Padtama Kedkuerviriyanon, 36, successfully helped the monkey into the world, despite having no medical training.

Amazing: Padtama Kedkuerviriyanon, 36, performs a C-section on a pregnant monkey killed by a car at a temple in Thailand

Video shows Ms Kedkuerviriyanon carefully cutting the stomach of the dead adult monkey, and removing the baby from the womb.

At first, the newborn appears to have died along with its mother, but after a few tense moments of Ms Kedkuerviriyanon performing heart massage, the newborn starts to breathe.

The pregnant mother monkey was part of a troop of monkeys living at the temple who would be fed by visiting tourists.

Ms Kedkuerviriyanon makes a living selling monkey food to the tourists at the temple, and she witnessed the accident that killed the mother.

Rescue mission: The baby monkey does not breathe right after it has been born, so Ms Kedkuerviriyanon performs heart massage

Circle of life: After a few moments of carefully tapping away at the baby monkey's chest, the little newborn takes its first breath and opens its eyes

Miracle monkey: The baby monkey, seen in a photo posted by Ms Kedkuerviriyanon on social media, is doing well and will be released back into the troop once it is strong enough

Hero: Padtama Kedkuerviriyanon

She told Thai media that she has no veterinarian or medical training, and carried out the procedure from memory by thinking back to her own experience giving birth through a cesarean section several years ago.

'At that moment, I thought to myself the baby monkey would be dying inside its dead mother if I didn't do anything to help save it,' she told Bangkok Post.

Ms Kedkuerviriyanon told the newspaper that the little monkey is thriving in her care. She feeds it regularly via a syringe, and at night the baby monkey sleeps with her in her bed.

She added that she plans on raising it until it is strong enough to be released into the troop.