Police Officer Catches Girl Who Falls 33 Feet From Pipe

A Shiyan City police officer broke the fall of a girl who jumped 33 feet (seven meters) from a pipe in central China’s Hubei province on Monday, January 15.

This bodycam footage shows the incident. The officer who caught the girl was named Lu Zhixue, and he can be heard in the video telling her to come down from the heating pipe. He rushes forward to catch the woman at about 2 minutes and 48 seconds into the footage, and can be heard saying that he cannot move his leg afterwards.

According to a Weibo post by the Shiyan City Public Security Bureau Dongyue Branch, Lu fractured his leg in the accident. The jumping girl sustained only a minor foot injury.

Xinhua reported that the girl had attempted to kill herself, and Lu had been determined to save her because he felt that she was about the same age as his own child.

A Weibo post from January 20 stated that Lu had undergone successful surgery one day earlier, and was on his way to recovery. Credit: Shiyan City Public Security Bureau Dongyue Branch via Storyful