In a heroic gesture, Thamer bin Suleiman Al-Mutairi, a Saudi scholarship student in Indiana, USA, saved three young Saudi women from a fire which had engulfed their apartment.

Al-Mutairi was coming back to his residence to get ready for his upcoming exams, when he heard noises coming from the apartment next door. There were three Saudi scholarship women trapped in a blaze and were screaming hysterically for help. Al-Mutairi dashed to the scene and broke down the door of the apartment.

With total disregard for his life, he entered the smoke-filled flat and rescued the three girls, sustaining second degree burns to his body and one of his hands.

In a phone call to a local newspaper, Thamer’s father Suleiman said he was proud of his son, and of his heroic gesture toward Saudis outside the Kingdom. “There is nothing strange about his act because our sons have been raised on strong morals rooted in Islam.