Meet the Chinese swimmers who formed a river rescue squad
Team of 86 amateurs have rescued or retrieved 62 people from the water over the past nine years
A group of volunteer swimmers in northern China has won praise for helping the police with river rescues and raising public awareness of water safety.
The group operates in Shangqiu in Henan province, the news website Thepaper.cn reported.
The team also helps retrieve bodies from the water and on Sunday pulled a drowned person from a river, the report said. A search had been under way for the person killed for 17 hours, according to the article.
There are now 86 amateur swimmers in the group and they have rescued or retrieved 62 people from the water over nine years.
“The motivation for us is to make use of our skills to save others,” team leader Huang Wei was quoted as saying.
