Woman, 77, saves drowning 86-year-old  

广西柳州一七旬老太跳进冰冷水中救起八旬老太

韦树英从没有想过当英雄，但是现在她成了周围人眼中的英雄。12月22日下午，这位家住柳城县东泉镇新民路的77岁老奶奶，纵身跳入冰冷的河中，奋力将一名落水的86岁老太太托出水面，救了她一命。这已经是韦树英今年以来第二次救人，她的义举现在在柳城县东泉镇成为美谈。 [查看全文]

(ECNS) – A 77-year-old woman in Liucheng county, Guangxi province, plunged into cold water and saved a drowning 86-year-old woman, according to gxnews.com.cn.

On the afternoon of Dec 22, Wei Shuying saw an older woman falling into a 3-meter-wide river upstream about 10 meters away. After failing to pull her up from the bank, Wei jumped into the water to give her a hand.

Wei is 1.6 meters tall and could barely touch the bottom of the river. She tried several times but failed to push the older woman out of the water. Luckily, passersby saw them and pulled them out.

"But for her (Wei's) heroic act, I couldn't have seen my mother again," said Xie Jinwang, the older woman's son.

Wei said she couldn't swim, but when seeing people in danger, she had no time to think about herself and just jumped into the water.

It's not the first time Wei helped someone from drowning. In the summer, Wei pulled up an 88-year-old woman who slipped into the water in the same place.

"It's no big deal. Anyone would help if they saw that," she said.