BRAVE GIRL: Then showing the light cut on her arm to reporters after lodging the report yesterday.
MIRI: A 14-year-old schoolgirl who holds a black belt in taekwondo put her martial skills to good use when she saved a 15-year-old schoolmate from snatch thieves yesterday afternoon.
The heroine surnamed Then was walking to her school in Piasau at noon when she saw two strangers on motorcycle blocking her schoolmate’s path.
“I saw one of the men clutched the girl’s school uniform in a suspicious way…so I ran towards the girl to help her…because I sense something was not right,” said Then to the Borneo Post yesterday.
The two men brandished knives to scare off Then but that did not stop her from approaching them and delivered a kick to one of the snatch thieves sending him tumbling into the drain.
The other man aimed a punch at Then but her six years of training in the Korean martial art taught her to duck.
Sensing that they had met their match the snatch thieves fled on their motorcycle.
Then sustained some abrasion on her right arm and in the commotion the girl saved from the snatch thieves fled the scene.
A police report on the incident has been lodged at the Central Police Station (CPS)here.