GEORGE TOWN: It was a MacGyver moment on the second Penang bridge when an auxiliary policeman, seeing a woman struggling in the waters below, emptied a five-litre jerrycan, tied it to his waist as an emergency flotation device and rappelled down.
Luckily, the jerrycan was enough to keep the woman afloat until a fishing boat came to rescue them.
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