MAKKAH: Mustering all her courage and power, a mother, who was caught in the stampede in Mina on Thursday, threw her young child into one of the adjoining tents to save him from being crushed.
Egyptian pilgrims saw her plight from the top of the tents but couldn’t lend her a helping hand. “She was far away and she threw her child at us. His name is Ibrahim. He survived,” one of them told a local newspaper.
“We saw her trying to stand up to save her child … It seemed that she was not able to breathe … She somehow threw him up at the tent and asked us to take care of him,” she said.
The pilgrims then brought the child something to eat and provided him new clothes. “Later, we went in search for his mother or any other relatives, but we couldn’t succeed,” another pilgrim said.
However, they were pleasantly surprised when the next morning someone turned up at the camp saying he is the uncle of Ibrahim. "When the child saw his uncle, he hugged him and so we passed on the child to him,” said the second pilgrim.
He said the mother survived and that it was she who told him about the child’s whereabouts. “Umm Ibrahim is recuperating in hospital,” the pilgrim quoted the uncle as saying.
