Chinese woman vows to marry earthquake hero boyfriend after terrifying coach ordeal
Devoted partner ‘instinctively’ shielded his bride-to-be as rocks rained down on tour bus, shattering windows
A Chinese woman has vowed to marry the boyfriend who shielded her when their coach was battered by falling rocks in the aftermath of Tuesday’s deadly earthquake in Sichuan, mainland media reported.
Zeng Yajing said that she and her boyfriend, who was not named, had been holidaying in Sichuan and were returning from a day trip to a national park in Jiuzhaigou, site of the magnitude 7 quake, when the area was hit by a series of aftershocks, Sichuan Daily reported on Wednesday.
“There were continuous aftershocks and big stones were falling down along the mountain roads,” Zeng, who hails from eastern China’s Zhejiang province, was quoted as saying.
“Suddenly a rock smashed the back window, and I felt him [her boyfriend] holding me,” she said. “When I opened my eyes, I saw the floor was strewn with broken glass and there were four rocks as big as fists by my feet.”
The boyfriend was quoted as saying that as soon as the rocks began to hit the bus he instinctively put his arms around his girlfriend and used his jacket to protect them both against the flying glass.
“I wasn’t thinking about anything except making sure she didn’t get hurt,” he said. “Fortunately, the jacket was thick so the glass didn’t hurt us.”
