Police officer Wang Xiaoke holds an elderly woman hanging onto the exterior bars of an anti-theft window frame at a building in Guanghan city, Southwest China's Sichuan province, on Aug 3, 2016. [Photo from Sina Weibo]

Netizens praise police officer's embrace as the warmest

A police officer man held onto an elderly woman for more than 20 minutes through an anti-theft window frame to prevent her from off a building in Guanghan city, Southwest China's Sichuan province.

The old woman, who was in her 70s, fell from the third floor and was trapped on the outside of the anti-theft window frame. Local police immediately went to rescue the woman after receiving locals' calls for help.

Wang Xiaoke is the police officer who stood on the seriously corroded anti-theft window frame, bent his body and embraced the old woman through the guardrails. Asked why he did this, Wang said, "The rails are so short that I could only bend down to hold onto her."

As far as the corroded frame is concerned, the other policemen could only move very slowly to reach the old woman and tie a safety rope around her, then move her to a safe place.

During the whole rescue, Wang didn't loose his grip until the woman was safe, though he said it was difficult to bend down to carry the woman. At one point, he even felt his legs tremble.

When his colleagues helped Wang to get down from the guardrails, pain in his waist meant he had to lie on the ground for a few minutes before he could walk again.

After the photo of Wang bending down to carry the woman spread on the internet, Chinese netizens showed support and praised Wang's embrace as the warmest they had ever seen.