Chinese police become Good Samaritans after discovering starving and penniless Russian hitchhiker

Chinese traffic police twice became Good Samaritans by helping a starving and penniless young Russian woman backpacker they found walking alone in the north of the country, mainland media reports.

The unnamed woman, 20, who could not speak Chinese, was spotted walking along an expressway while trying to hitchhike to Hunchun, a city in Jilin province, near the border with Russia on Sunday, the New Culture Daily reported on Monday.

The woman, who was able to communicate with police only by using a translation website on a smartphone, said she had been travelling in Southeast Asia, but had run out of money, the report said.

“I don’t have any money with me, and I haven’t had any food for days,” she told the police.

She told them that last week traffic police in Henan province had also come to her aid while she was hitchhiking after she had been dropped off by a motorist on the side of an expressway without any money.

The Henan police had bought her food and a train ticket to Changchun, where she was supposed to meet her friend, and put her safely on the train, the report said. The police also gave her some money in case of an emergency.