This CCTV camera set up in the bedroom of a Chinese household captures the moment a panicked dad discovers he’s lost his son after falling asleep himself when putting the boy to bed.

The dad had laid down on the bed next to the little boy in order to get him to settle down, but the man then fell asleep himself at the home in the prefecture-level city of Langfang in the province of Hebei in China.

In the footage captured on CCTV camera, he then wakes up and glances over to check that the child is okay, and realises to his horror that is gone.

He starts frantically searching the bedroom, lifting up pillows and moving blankets with no sign of the child, before then running out to alert his wife.

She comes in and the couple both joined in the search, when suddenly the camera catches the moment the wardrobe door starts to move open.

It’s noticed by the mum, who then pushes aside and notices the child sitting inside after apparently sneaking there and closing the door so it could play on the mobile phone without waking up his sleeping father.

The mother picks the child up and the phone drops on the floor, revealing the real reason that he sneaked in there, and the parents were not sure whether to laugh or cry with relief after finding the missing toddler.