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Daily Mirror
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Gwyn Wright & Alice Peacock

Man who jumped into River Thames to save woman died in 'sheer act of bravery'

A hero who died rescuing a woman who was drowning in the Thames shouted "I've got to save her, she is not dying" before he jumped in, an inquest heard.

Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, 20, was found dead six hours after going into the water near London Bridge in what police described as a "sheer act of bravery" as he attempted to aid the 21-year-old woman who survived.

Mr Olubunmi-Adewole, known to friends as Jimi, and his best pal Bernard Kosia were walking across London Bridge just after midnight on 24 April last year when eyewitnesses alerted them to the situation.

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