Love and compassion in China: Moroccan student saves drowning woman, long-ago pen pals reunite


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A Moroccan man studying in eastern China has been hailed as a hero by local residents and received an award for saving a drowning woman from a lake. On the evening of April 6, Ayoub Fadil, 21, a student at Hangzhou Dianzi University in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province and several foreign friends were walking around Jinsha Lake when they noticed a woman floating in the water. A lifebuoy thrown by some residents did not help because she was too far away from the bank, Hangzhou Daily reported. Fadil’s girlfriend urged him to jump in and save the woman because he is…