Rescuers Form a Human Wall to Dam a River with Their Bodies to Save a Boy Trapped by the Current

From southwest China comes the story of a group of strangers who stopped at nothing to rescue a boy from a raging river.

While unable to literally move heaven and earth, their determination was such that they altered the flow of the river—with nothing less than their own bodies.

The story began in Guizhou province near a scenic riverway frequented by visiting nature lovers. A boy was playing in a creek where the water flow was quite strong and lost his footing.

Less than a foot of fast-flowing water is still enough to move a parked car, and the boy was at the mercy of the elements as he tumbled down the waterway before being stuck between two large stones with only his head sticking up above the torrent.

Good Samaritans, mostly tourists, rushed to the scene and plotted a rescue maneu