Woman dives into river to save man

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 6 - A 38-year-old Russian woman dived into a northern Italian river to save a 26-year-old Senegalese man on Monday.
    The woman, Anastasiia Zuevich, from St Petersburg, dived into the Brembo River where it bisects the small town of Ponte San Pietro near Bergamo where she has a riverside home.
    She was alerted by the shouts of passersby who had seen the Senegalese man fall into the water with a mattress on his side, for so far unknown reasons.
    The local council is thinking of rewarding Zuevich for her heroism.
    But she told the Eco di Bergamo newspaper Tuesday that "I only did my duty: a man was drowning and I rushed to help him".
    Her rescue was "the most natural thing in the world," she said.
    Local Mayor Matteo Macoli met Zuevich and thanked her for her action.
    He said she would get her just reward at an upcoming public occasion. (ANSA).