‘Human barrier’: Chinese men rescue boy trapped between huge rocks in a rapid river

A group of Good Samaritans in China used their bodies to block fast-flowing river water and saved a boy who was stuck between giant rocks, earning widespread praise online

The boy, 12, was playing in a creek in the countryside of southwestern China’s Guizhou province, on August 24 when he was suddenly washed away by the running water and became trapped between two rocks.