Sichuan, China - "I heard that there was a teacher who saved four female students, but I didn't know it was you!", wailed Zhang Guanrong as she threw herself on her husband's corpse.

According to a report from Xinhua Net, the teacher, Tan Qianqiu, had valiantly saved the lives of his four students by protectively throwing his body over theirs when the earthquake that shook China last week hit Dongqi Secondary School.

His body was recovered from the rubble on May 13.

The 50-year-old was a head teacher who taught politics to the second and third-year students.

"He was one of the teachers who loved the students the most," said a fellow colleague at the school.

"If he ever sees a pebble in the school grounds, he would walk over to remove it for fear that the students may injure themselves," the colleague told a reporter.

The teacher reportedly leaves behind a wife and a daughter.

"He was a good man, a big hero!" -Uncle of Liu Hongli, one of the four girls saved by their teacher Tan Qianqiu

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