Expats save girl from river
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TWO Russian students and a French teacher from Shanghai Jian Qiao University in the Pudong New Area rescued a girl from the Silian River near the school on Saturday evening after she attempted to commit suicide, school authorities told Shanghai Daily yesterday.
The French teacher, identified only as Bastien, who had just arrived at the university on Saturday, saw someone struggling in the river around 8pm when he was talking with the two students, Roman Chaikovskii and Kirll Karpuk, on the balcony of his dorm, Xi Lijun, a school official, told Shanghai Daily.
Both students are 21 years old and arrived in Shanghai in March to study at the university’s international design school.
As it was dark, the teacher was not sure what the girl was doing, but she was moving up and down in the water, suggesting she was not a strong swimmer, Xi said.
Bastien rushed to the riverside with the two students to get a closer look.
Chaikovskii jumped into the river to grab the girl, and Karpuk and Bastien helped to pull the girl to the riverbank, according to Xi.
The girl told the school’s security director, surnamed Xu, that she had been a student at a nearby secondary vocational school, but quit last year.
“She said she was roaming around after seeing former classmates in the vocational school and jumped into the river to commit suicide because she was depressed,” Xu said.
“But she regretted her decision when she was in the water and held onto a net until our students and teacher managed to pull her back to land.”
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