Love and compassion in China: Moroccan student saves drowning woman, long-ago pen pals reunite

A Moroccan man studying in eastern China has been hailed as a hero by local residents and received an award for saving a drowning woman from a lake. On the evening of April 6, Ayoub Fadil, 21, a student at Hangzhou Dianzi University in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province and several foreign friends were walking around Jinsha Lake when they noticed a woman floating in the water. A lifebuoy thrown by some residents did not help because she was too far away from the bank, Hangzhou Daily reported. Fadil’...

By Alice Yan