Two Tibetan reporters had to break the windshield of a Toyota landcruiser that had fallen into a roadside ditch earlier this week to save the five wounded passengers trapped to their seats.

The two reporters, Gaisang Dawa and Benba Cering with the Tibet bureau of Xinhua News Agency, were on their way from Lhasa to Xigaze for an interview, when they saw the damaged landcruiser lying in a ditch Wednesday morning.

"We asked our driver to pull over and went up to see if there was anything we could help," said Dawa.

Dawa and Benba tried to open the vehicle's door when they saw one passenger on the front seat was struggling to move. "But the landcruiser was badly deformed and none of its doors could open," Dawa said.

In the end, the two had to break the windshield of the damaged vehicle with stones, and lifted out five injured passengers one by one.

When they failed to stop a passing bus, the two reporters had to cancel their interview and send their own driver to take the wounded passengers back to Lhasa in their minivan. "We two stayed at the site until traffic police officers came for investigation,"said Dawa.

The five wounded passengers were all staff members of the ethnic affairs administration of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. They were out of danger by Wednesday night thanks to timely treatment.

Source: Xinhua