On April 30, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Two police officers in Vitebsk saved a suicidal girl, the information and public relations department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent. The previous day, a rapid response team consisting of senior sergeant Ivan Obrazov, Maxim Maximov, and driver sergeant Vladimir Vilichinsky, while on duty, received a report from the duty officer of the Internal Affairs Directorate about an incident on Kirov Bridge. Passers-by reported by phone 102 that a young girl had jumped off the bridge into the river. Police officers who arrived at the scene of the emergency managed to catch up with the girl carried by the current by car along the riverbank, and then pulled her out of the water. The victim, who was intoxicated, was alive. She did not tell the police officers the motives that pushed her to commit suicide. An ambulance took the 21-year-old girl to the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Hospital. The actions of the rapid response team members were rewarded with a monetary bonus. -0-

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