In a split-second act of bravery, an 11-year-old girl in central China's Henan town leaped to save her baby sister from a runaway electric mini cabin scooter that crashed into a restaurant, narrowly avoiding a tragedy on Monday.
In Henan Province's Xihua County of Zhoukou City, the surveillance video showed an elderly man who had just finished his meal at a restaurant standing beside his newly purchased cabin scooter. With the driver unfamiliar its control, the scooter suddenly drove off automatically and crashed inside the restaurant, heading directly toward a young toddler of the restaurant owner.
In a moment of crisis, the toddler's 11-year-old sister sprang into action, snatching her sibling away before the scooter smashed into the wall.
Following the incident, the elderly driver sincerely apologized and agreed to compensate for the economic losses.
The restaurant owner learned that the accident was unintentional and, since no serious injuries occurred, only requested compensation for the damaged glass door.
11-year-old girl rescues baby sister from runaway electric cabin scooter
The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.
The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.
Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.
"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.
Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.
Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.
"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.
Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight
