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Wednesday 9 December 2009 (22 Dhul Hijjah 1430)
Man leaves his wife in floodwater
Arjuwan Lakkdawala | Arab News
JEDDAH: 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.
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