Jeddah- Man leaves his wife in floodwater

(MENAFN - Arab News) The floods shocked many, especially a Saudi wife whose husband fled for his life and left her to drown in a car filling up with water. Pakistani truck driver Shahzad (not his real name) witnessed the cowardly act.

"I couldn't believe my eyes when this man left his wife to die. I couldn't bear the sight of the drowning woman shouting for help," he said.

"I got down from the truck and half swam and half waded to her and carried her on my back and brought her to safety.

We were petrified from what we saw happening around us. The woman was crying a lot. We waited till the Civil Defense helicopter came to rescue us."

Idrees Abdullah Kaheel was caught in the flood when the river of water roared into the Ghulail district. "I'm a good swimmer and I knew it was very dangerous to stay in the car. So I got out and tied my car to a nearby truck. The only thing I wanted to do was to just get home alive to my family. But me and some other boys in a truck saw people being swept away and we couldn't just run to save ourselves."

Being good swimmers, all of them worked together to pull people out from the water, rescuing five people and a goat. "We saw something that didn't look human drowning and pulled it out," added Kaheel.

By Arjuwan Lakkdawala

Source: Middle East North Africa Financial News (MENAFN).
Link: http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093287175&src=NLEN.