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  • The British diplomat, who has been hailed as a hero for rescuing a drowning student in China over the weekend, says a deep relief overcame him when she started breathing on, he saw should be okay.

  • Steven Ellison is Britain's consul general in Chongqing and was it a scenic spot?

  • When he saw the commotion, he told Reuters, he whipped off his shoes and dived in.

  • It was pretty clear quite quickly that she was in trouble.

  • She couldn't swear him and she was submerged.

  • Then she came up and floating on the surface of the water, so they were quite quite quite stark moments.

  • I e When I when I reached her on, turned her over and my hand under her chin, she wasn't breathing on Guy.

  • I really did fear the worst.

  • And it was not a very nice feeling when she started breathing again.

  • It was just a really, really, really deep sense of relief.

  • The people on the side fixed through in a life buoy, which is great.

  • I held on to that and they told us both to the side, but the villages were really, really kind and very warm, so they took me into the the near it nearby house on Took my clothes, give me a change of clothes, washed my clothes and drive them.

  • Gave me some coffee, Isamu.

  • Non coffee, which is very delicious.

  • I'm just just really, really, really kind.

  • Very warm.

  • So I spent a few hours there, and then they By the time the young students recovered, she she came on.

  • We met, um Onda, which was very sweet.

  • She was, you know, she's clearly a little shock, but she was She was in in good shape.

  • I'm happy, dude.

  • Thio tell the story on Duh.

  • It's a it's a it's a great story.

  • And if people, um take some pleasure from that, then great.

  • But I'm back to my back to my day job very, very quickly, so I'm not getting carried away with it, for sure.

  • Sino British ties are strained over China's crackdown on protests in Hong Kong, but the rescue went viral on social media.

The British diplomat, who has been hailed as a hero for rescuing a drowning student in China over the weekend, says a deep relief overcame him when she started breathing on, he saw should be okay.

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