Man Arrested For Saving Suicide Jumper In China

A man in southern China has been taken into police custody after pushing a would-be-suicide jumper off a bridge frequented by people threatening to end their lives.

Lai Jiansheng is being detained by police for pushing the man off the bridge in Guangzhou city that has been the site of 12 suicide attempts since the beginning of April, reports the China Daily newspaper.

Although none of the suicide attempts have been successful, traffic over the bridge has been jammed for hours during each attempt as police sought to talk the people out of ending their lives.

Lai was upset with the never ending traffic delay so he, broke through the police cordon on the bridge, walked up to Chen and shook his hand before pushing him off the bridge into a partially-inflated emergency cushion.

The would-be jumper fell eight metres into the partially-inflated cushion and came away from the incident with his life intact but his back injured.

He was threatening to commit suicide because of $300,000 dollar debt he incurred over a failed construction project.

"I pushed him off because jumpers like him are very selfish. Their actions violate a lot of public interests," Lai told the paper.

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