Young hero
Student rescues drowning boy
Tokyo — Japanese police on September 18 presented a Chinese student with a letter of appreciation for diving into a swollen river to rescue a 9-year-old boy, news reports said.
Yan Jun, who plans to enter Osaka City University’s doctoral economics programme in spring, was jogging on September 16 alongside the Yodo River in Osaka when he heard a cry from the boy who had been sucked into the muddy stream, the Mainichi daily reported.
“It is likely that the boy would have died if Yan had not been there,” an official of Osaka prefectural police force was quoted as saying. — DPA