Young Egyptian Mohamed Yahya doesn’t care that the “massive fire that broke out at the Abu Sufin Church in Mbaba district in Egypt almost claimed his life as he risked saving the victims whose cries and pleas echoed in the early hours.” Sunday morning.”
Yahya was standing on the balcony of his room overlooking the church when he saw the billowing smoke and immediately ran to the street to save what he could from the boys and old men attending on Sunday.
After intense efforts, Yahya managed to get 5 children out from under the fire and save a worker who was injured in this incident.
The young Egyptian man spoke to Sky News Arabia from his room at Mbaba State Hospital after doctors began treating his fractures and resuscitating him with emergency oxygen sessions.
Yahya said: The beginning of the incident was at 8:30 in the morning and at that time I was standing on the balcony and saw smoke coming from the fourth floor of the church and after a few seconds I saw a worker waiting for help and rescue. But he was oppressed by the heavy smoke and lack of oxygen in his room, he was forced to throw himself from one of the balconies of the church and fell dead.
And this young Egyptian added: “Because many people were afraid to enter the church, he put his clothes on his face and went up to the fourth floor where the children were waiting, so without knowing he carried five of them. They were alive or not, and then they came back in to save people.”
He continued: I entered again to save Uncle Gregs and he was about to die, I carried him on my shoulders and walked a few meters, but we fell from the fourth floor to the third floor due to being together. “So much water on the stairs that we passed out together before he saved us.” Paramedics are being transferred to Imbaba Hospital.
Yahya is bruised on his leg before the doctors notice the fracture and is quickly treated by putting on a medical splint while giving him constant oxygen sessions.
Khalid Abdel Ghaffar, the Minister of Health of Egypt, praised what Yahya Jawan had done during the fire crisis and called him “a hero and a role model for Egyptian youth”.
According to the Egyptian Ministry of Health, “the total number of dead in this heartbreaking incident has reached 41 people due to the thick smoke caused by the fire and crowding”.
The number of injured reached 14 people, two of whom were discharged from the hospital after taking necessary medical measures, and 12 others are undergoing treatment, of which 4 were seriously injured.
Source: Lebanon Debate
