Man dies saving mother, kids

ZHENGZHOU - The local government is trying to appease the grief-stricken family of a 58-year-old villager in Central China's Henan province after he lost his life saving three people who fell into a cold river on Jan 17.

Li Guoxi, a man from Quzhuang village in Henan, got off his electric bicycle and jumped into the water immediately after seeing a woman with two children fall in a river on the afternoon of Jan 17, said Deng Jianxin, an eyewitness who is from the same village as Li.

"He was in such a hurry to save the people that he even had no time to take off his clothes before jumping into the 3-meter-deep water," Deng told China Daily on Tuesday.