China honours woman who died saving Japanese family
China honours woman who died saving Japanese family
Hu Youping, a bus attendant, tried to restrain an assailant at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.
A Chinese woman who tried to shield a Japanese mother and her child from a knife attack has died.
Hu Youping was working as a school bus attendant in Suzhou city when a man attacked a Japanese woman and her child at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.
She suffered serious injuries while trying to restrain him.
Tributes for her have poured out online and the local government has said she will be given the title of "Righteous and Courageous Role Model".
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A Chinese woman who tried to shield a Japanese mother and her child from a knife attack has died.Hu Youping was working as a school bus attendant in Suzhou city when a man attacked a Japanese woman and her child at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.She suffered serious injuries while trying to restrain him.Tributes for her have poured out online and the local government has said she will be given the title of "Righteous and Courageous Role Model".
The Japanese embassy in China also lowered its flag to half-mast to honour Ms Hu.
It followed another stabbing earlier this month, which injured four US university instructors at a park in Jilin, in China's north-east.
Chinese state newspaper Global Times ran an editorial on Friday paying tribute to Ms Hu, where it also claimed that "China is undoubtedly still one of the safest countries in the world".Separately, the newspaper reported that Weibo had removed 759 posts that "incited nationalist sentiment" following the attack.
These posts contained "extreme opinions" that "promoted group hatred and even applauded criminal behaviour in the name of patriotism".The stabbing in Suzhou sparked concern among the local Japanese community and led the embassy to issue a safety alert warning its citizens living in China to take precautions while they are out.China's foreign ministry said the incident was "regrettable" and that it will "continue to take effective measures to earnestly protect the safety of all foreigners in China".China has seen a spate of knife attacks in the past year.
In May, two people were killed and 10 others injured in such an attack at a primary school in the southern Jiangxi province.
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