article_snippet: The youngsters, aged seven and nine, had gone with The youngsters, aged seven and nine mother Li Xiaoli at the end of last month to visit a man-made lake near the village of Xizhaolou in Qingfeng county, in central China's Henan province.
article_snippet: But as they were playing on the side of a man-made lake, the younger of the girls - named Chao - slipped and started to fall towards the water, and when she sister Liao went to grab her sister Liao, her sister Liao fell in as well.
article_snippet: Li Xiaoli and Li Xiaoli
article_snippet: Meng Ruipeng drowned after rescuing the two girls pictured, but the two girls failed to report it for fear of a compensation claim .
article_snippet: The girl's mother, who was unable to swim The girl, started screaming, alerting Meng.
article_snippet: Without thinking of Meng own safety, Meng jumped into the water to rescue the two girls, The People's Daily reported.
article_snippet: Meng managed to throw The girl from the steep-sided quarry lake back onto the bank, plucking The girl from below the surface where The girl had started to sink, and then pushed The girl towards the bank where The girl was grabbed by The girl mother and pulled to safety.
article_snippet: Meng Ruipeng (pictured), 24, died dragging two young girls to safety from a man-made lake .
highlights_snippet: Meng Ruipeng, 24, jumped into freezing cold water to save two girls' lives .
  