'I wish I could have saved him'

On Thursday morning around 10 o'clock, Zhou Xiaobo was allowed to view the body of his father and confirmed his identity after the older man died in a bus that plunged into the Yangtze River in Chongqing's Wanzhou district on Sunday.

Since the crash, Zhou, 43, deputy leader of Wanzhou's Blue Sky Rescue Team, was among the first group to reach the site and begin salvage work.

He was soon notified by local police that his 76-year-old father, Zhou Daguan, had swiped his senior bus card on that bus.