FAMILY of the hearing-impaired cab driver, who was saved from a burning car just in time on Wednesday (2) afternoon, believes that the stranger who saved him was an angel sent by God.
Abdul Awal, 58, was driving his Mercedes on Bellegrove Road in Welling, south-east London when a man shopping nearby spotted flames and called the fire brigade. As the fire continued to spread, the man sprinted towards the minicab, knocked on his window and encouraged him to pull over and leave the car somewhere safe.
While the man gestured Awal to get out of the car, the latter, who has hearing issues, was reluctant thinking the stranger wanted a fight. Eventually, the man pulled Awal away from the vehicle towards safety, before the fire brigade arrived to extinguish the fire.
Reacting to the incident, Awal’s daughter Iffath Nowrin was surprised that the stranger went over and spoke to her dad who was “so unresponsive.”
"If I saw fire, I wouldn't go towards it,” Nowrin told BBC, adding that this is how “humanity should aim to be.”
"If more people were like this, the world would be a better place."
"I wish more people were like him - everybody else there was playing football or filming on their phones, compared to one guy who was genuinely actually concerned about my dad's health.”
"I am so, so grateful that there are people like this that exist."
The family also believes that the stranger may have been sent down by God as an angel to save Awal.
"He's literally a lifesaver, a random guy who came out for a random person and saved him. I am so, so grateful.”
"He gained nothing out of this and he didn't hesitate to do it."
The man, who helped, reportedly wishes to remain anonymous, says media report.
