Uruguayan woman is lake rescue foreigner
By Zi Chen |
October 27, 2011, Thursday
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A FOREIGNER who jumped into the West Lake in Hangzhou, in Zhejiang Province, to save a suicidal woman earlier this month is a Uruguayan living in Shanghai, a newspaper has reported.
Maria Fernanda has been in Shanghai with her husband, who works in the city, for several months and they were walking along the bank of the West Lake on October 13 when they saw a woman drowning, reported Uruguayan newspaper El Pais.
Fernanda told the newspaper that she decided to jump into the lake because she saw the water was going over the woman's chest and nobody was helping her.
"My adrenalin rose, I took off my clothes and went into the water," Fernanda was quoted as saying.
She said she couldn't bear seeing people standing there taking photographs and filming the woman in distress.
Fernanda and her husband left after pulling the woman ashore and handing her over to the police.
Witnesses said that a middle-aged suicidal woman jumped from the lakeside Wenshui Pavilion.
Liu Yong, a security guard at a dining and shopping complex near the pavilion, said that he was preparing to go to the woman's aid, but before he had taken off his uniform, the foreign woman had already dived into the water.
"When the foreign lady jumped in, the drowning woman was about 20 meters from the pavilion and was sinking. I could only see her hair," Liu said.
"But the foreign lady swam quickly to her, held up her chin with one hand and swam back."
The rescued woman was said to have tried to commit suicide due to problems in her life.
The woman was later taken home by relatives.
Maria Fernanda has been in Shanghai with her husband, who works in the city, for several months and they were walking along the bank of the West Lake on October 13 when they saw a woman drowning, reported Uruguayan newspaper El Pais.
Fernanda told the newspaper that she decided to jump into the lake because she saw the water was going over the woman's chest and nobody was helping her.
"My adrenalin rose, I took off my clothes and went into the water," Fernanda was quoted as saying.
She said she couldn't bear seeing people standing there taking photographs and filming the woman in distress.
Fernanda and her husband left after pulling the woman ashore and handing her over to the police.
Witnesses said that a middle-aged suicidal woman jumped from the lakeside Wenshui Pavilion.
Liu Yong, a security guard at a dining and shopping complex near the pavilion, said that he was preparing to go to the woman's aid, but before he had taken off his uniform, the foreign woman had already dived into the water.
"When the foreign lady jumped in, the drowning woman was about 20 meters from the pavilion and was sinking. I could only see her hair," Liu said.
"But the foreign lady swam quickly to her, held up her chin with one hand and swam back."
The rescued woman was said to have tried to commit suicide due to problems in her life.
The woman was later taken home by relatives.
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