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.
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