Child saved from burning car [video]

A Saudi fireman passing near a car crash while off duty risked his life to save a four-year-old girl who was trapped inside the burning vehicle after her parents died.

Corporal Ibrahim Suweidan was driving near the capital Riyadh at night when he saw the blaze caused by collision of the car with a truck on a motorway.

A YouTube film published in Sabq newspaper and social networks showed Suweidan lunged towards the burning car and pulled out the child.

Sabq said her parents and an infant were killed in the crash.

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