Woman rescued after nearly 1 hour of jumping off Ben Thuy bridge
(Baonghean.vn) - Walking to the middle of Ben Thuy bridge, the woman jumped down and floated downstream 500m from the bridge and was promptly rescued by the force.
At 1:00 p.m. on June 27, the Provincial Police Department of Fire Prevention and Rescue received a report that a woman was walking on Ben Thuy 1 Bridge and then jumped into the river to commit suicide.
Immediately after receiving the news, the Department directed the Fire Prevention and Rescue Police Team on the river to mobilize vehicles, along with 8 officers and soldiers to quickly arrive at the scene and search for the victim.
Deploying search plans, at about 1:50 p.m. the same day, the rescue team found the woman 500 meters downstream from the bridge. Remarkably, the woman was still alive, struggling on the water surface.
The Fire and Rescue Police Team on the river quickly approached, brought the woman to shore to help stabilize her health, advised and encouraged her, and contacted relatives to come pick her up.
The woman who jumped off the bridge and was saved is over 30 years old and lives in Hong Linh town, Ha Tinh province.
According to witnesses, the woman was walking on the bridge from Nghe An to Ha Tinh, then jumped into the Lam River in the middle of the bridge./.