{"id":389,"date":"2023-10-24T03:58:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/suicidal-chinese-man-tries-to-drown-police-rescuing-him-in-river\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T03:58:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:41","slug":"suicidal-chinese-man-tries-to-drown-police-rescuing-him-in-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/suicidal-chinese-man-tries-to-drown-police-rescuing-him-in-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicidal Chinese Man Tries To Drown Police Rescuing Him In River"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Officers and two passers-by finally managed to get the man attempting to take his own life in Sichuan province to safety<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An elderly man who tried to drown himself in western China also tried to drag two police officers under the water who came to rescue him, according to a news website report.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u87a2\u5e55\u5feb\u7167 2017-06-17 \u4e0b\u53483.49.56.png\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FgvuxSjtnyvOWn_G0WchgEiBU7kK?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" style=\"\" height=\"349\" width=\"617\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/suicidal-chinese-man-tries-to-drown-police-rescuing-him-in-river\/#Police_and_two_passers-by_who_also_jumped_into_the_water_pictured_finally_getting_the_man_to_safety_Photo_Sinacomcn\" title=\"Police and two passers-by, who also jumped into the water, pictured finally getting the man to safety. Photo: Sina.com.cn\">Police and two passers-by, who also jumped into the water, pictured finally getting the man to safety. Photo: Sina.com.cn<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/suicidal-chinese-man-tries-to-drown-police-rescuing-him-in-river\/#Photo_Sinacomcn\" title=\"Photo: Sina.com.cn\">Photo: Sina.com.cn<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Police_and_two_passers-by_who_also_jumped_into_the_water_pictured_finally_getting_the_man_to_safety_Photo_Sinacomcn\"><\/span>Police and two passers-by, who also jumped into the water, pictured finally getting the man to safety. Photo: Sina.com.cn<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>The man twice tried to push the officers under the water as they grappled to save him in a river in Longma in Sichuan province, the news website Sina.com.cn reported.<\/p>\n<p>The man, 65, was spotted jumping into the river last week by a witness who alerted the police.<\/p>\n<p>The two officers, Yang Lidong and Han Yu, jumped into the water and managed to put a life vest on the man.<\/p>\n<p>The man started to pull the officers down, saying he would drown them as he was going to die, the article said.<\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Sinacomcn\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u87a2\u5e55\u5feb\u7167 2017-06-17 \u4e0b\u53483.50.10.png\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FhAzuqZUuSOSk_LVzvkkv3NzPHcW?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" style=\"\" height=\"351\" width=\"598\" title=\"\">Photo: Sina.com.cn<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>People on the riverbank threw a rope and tyre to the exhausted police and they managed to secure the man again round the waist.<\/p>\n<p>He then grabbed Han\u2019s neck and tried to pull him under.<\/p>\n<p>After a struggle, the police finally got man to safety with the help of two passers-by who jumped into the river to help.<\/p>\n<p>The rescued man was quoted as telling the officers: \u201cWhy did you save me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said he has been sent for a psychiatric assessment, according to the article.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FizBWEYf2YpZEmPfbTfW_onkpKNH.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FizBWEYf2YpZEmPfbTfW_onkpKNH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" style=\"\" height=\"543.2937181663837\" width=\"500\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers and two passers-by finally managed to get the man attempting to take his own life in Sichuan province to safety An elderly man who tried to drown himself in &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}