Man uses turban to pull drowning woman to shore
KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops man is being credited for quick thinking in the face of cultural taboos that saved a woman adrift in the North Thompson River Saturday.
Paul Hothi and his father Avtar were working at their family farm in Heffley Creek when they heard frantic calling from the riverbank.
“The neighbours said they heard someone yelling, ‘Help me! Help me!’ so she waved us over, and we ran towards it, and saw a girl in the river,” said Hothi.