Chinese man saves wife from suicide fall by grabbing ponytail

A man from central China saved his suicidal wife who jumped off a building by grabbing her ponytail at the last moment to stop her from falling.

The woman from Shiquan county in Shaanxi province was partially suspended in the air for about three minutes, with her husband clutching her hair on the building’s roof, before police arrived and saved her, the Chinese Business View reported.

The woman in her 30s jumped off the 20-metre tall building after a family dispute on Sunday, according to the article. The couple are tenants of an apartment on the top floor of the building.

A police officer, Zuo Yu, told the newspaper: “When we arrived, we saw her husband grasping her ponytail, but his hand had clearly slipped to near its end. If we were late by a few seconds or her husband couldn’t hold on to her hair for a few more seconds, it might have been impossible to save her.”

A video circulated on the internet shows a police officer climbing over a barrier to reach the woman, with colleagues holding on to his clothes to stop him falling.