This is the terrifying moment a teenage girl plummeted twelve storeys from an apartment building in India.

Gut-wrenching footage shows Hetal Saroli, 13, crashing into a bike shed metal roof with such force that the roof breaks and flips her over onto the ground.

The teenager lost her balance while on the twelfth-floor balcony when she leaned over to look at some school friends walking across the street below in Gujarat.

But despite suffering 18 injuries, including a broken hand and internal bleeding, Miss Saroli survived the fall on April 13.

Footage shows Hetal Saroli, 13, plummeting twelve storeys from an apartment building in India

The teenager crashes into a bike shed metal roof with such force that the roof breaks and flips her over onto the ground

She is now in a stable condition at the New Civil Hospital in Surat, in the west Indian state.

Miss Saroli is undergoing treatment in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit, and has many operations ahead of her, medics say.

Doctors added that it was a miracle the teenager survived - after suffering injuries to her waist, breaking one hand, and fracturing the other, as well as stomach, head and leg injuries.

Onlookers rush to help the teenager following her horrific fall in India. Despite suffering 18 injuries, including a broken hand and internal bleeding, Miss Saroli survived the fall on April 13

The teenager lost her balance while on the twelfth-floor balcony when she leaned over to look at some school friends walking across the street below

She is now in a stable condition at the New Civil Hospital in Surat, in the west Indian state of Gujarat (pictured)

They say she will need a number of operations to treat her many injuries, which includes extensive fractures to her ribcage.

But important organs including her brain, heart, kidney and liver are not harmed and are working fine, medics claimed.

Surgeons have already performed a tracheostomy - which is a surgical procedure on the neck which helps a person breathe - and an intubate while setting her broken limbs and performing surgery to her abdomen.