Indian woman in Madinah saves her 3 kids by throwing them off burning flat

Madinah, Jun 23: An Indian mother in Saudi Arabia has showed exemplary bravery by rescuing her three children when her house caught fire in the wee hours.

The fire which erupted in the kitchen suddenly started spreading to other parts of the two-bedroom flat. She had to decide quickly before she and her three children suffocated.

“I had to take the risk of throwing my three children out of the window, which was seven meters high or watch them being roasted alive,” she said.

Umm Nabeel said the approaching fire and the dense smoke left her no choice but to take the chances of throwing her children out in the hope they might survive.

“If I kept them inside the apartment we would all get burned. I started with my younger daughter Alyan who is 3. I closed my eyes and threw her out of the window.”

The mother said luckily their father and some young Saudi men brought a long white cloth and suspended it under the window to cushion their fall.

Umm Nabeel said she then threw to safety her two other children — Nabeel, who is 12, and Shifa, 10. “I was the last to jump, but none of us was hurt or injured.

Thanks to Allah, we are all safe.” Umm Nabeel thanked Madinah residents who provided her with an alternative apartment in Al-Nasser District.

“The most difficult moment through the entire ordeal was when my daughter asked me whether we were all going to die,” she said.