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Mainland police to investigate officers’ failure to save high school student

蘋果日報 2020/12/06 21:09


A mainland police bureau has launched an investigation after officers incited public cry over their failure to rescue a 17-year-old high school student who jumped into a river.
The female student was seen on Dec. 4 at about 1 p.m. jumping into a river in a suspected suicide, the local police of Wanjiang county in Anhui province posted on its official account on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site.
A team of officers was dispatched upon receiving the call about the student but failed to stop her from jumping into the river. She died after her body was dragged out of the water, the police said.
The incident caused public outcry as videos emerged online that countered the police’s version of events. The four officers on site acted timidly after the student dove into the river and did not go further into the water. Onlookers then jumped into the river one after another in vain attempts to save the girl.
Another clip showed medics trying to save the girl by the riverbank. It was said that she died before reaching the hospital.
Many slammed the police for their lack of professionalism. The Jinhua City Public Security Bureau tried to placate the public by saying on its official Weibo that police officers were not gods and that there were limitations to what they could do. It also accused onlookers of focusing on filming the incident instead of helping to rescue the girl.
The bureau, however, also said that local officers should be better equipped to carry out rescue missions, adding that it would wait for the investigation report from the Anhui police and respond to the public’s enquiries.
The officers involved have been suspended from their duties.
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