Hu Youping, a bus attendant, tried to restrain an assailant at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.

A Chinese woman who tried to shield a Japanese mother and her child from a knife attack has died.

Hu Youping was working as a school bus attendant in Suzhou city when a man attacked a Japanese woman and her child at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.

She suffered serious injuries while trying to restrain him.

Tributes for her have poured out online and the local government has said she will be given the title of “Righteous and Courageous Role Model”.

  • @PyroNeurosis
    1•2 days ago

    I mean, it’s punishment, which is better than what we’ve got here in the US

    • Андрей Быдло
      2•2 days ago

      Both capital punishment and waving 25 years off are extremes not worth picking, imho. In a somehow sane world the latter would land Abbot’s ass himself in the court.