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A toddler survived being hit in the back with an arrow allegedly fired by her neighbour as she played in the garden of her family home.

Tian Tian, two, was felled when Lian Chen let fly with a longbow from a bedroom window while allegedly trying to scare off a wildcat.

‘She screamed and I looked over and saw an arrow sticking out of her back. I nearly fainted,’ said her grandmother Yi Tsou of Nanyang, central China.

Medics removed the arrow but now have to wait to see if the iron arrowhead caused any damage to her spinal cord.

‘The wound was very deep and we have to wait and see how badly she was damaged,’ said head surgeon Lok T'ang at Nanyangís 1st People’s Hospital.

Now neighbour Lian, 53, is facing up to seven years in jail for injuring the youngster, say police.