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Fazle Amin o a hero who saved 13 people during flooPESHAWAR: Though the recent floods caused death and destruction at a

in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, there were many acts of heroism such as that of FBelonging to Jabba Daudzai village near Peshawar, he set an example by plife in danger to save the lives of fellow villagers Talking to The News, the 4Fazle Amin said on July 29 he along with his old mother, four-year-old dauseven-year-old son left the village to reach the motorway as water had starthe area.OAll the people were in panic and the only place we considered safe was thEveryone was rushing to the motorway, but we were trapped as the fencethe motorway was blocking our way and the water level was increasing rapirecalled.Fazle Amin said he placed his daughter on the fence post and asked his sonfence, as he had to support his elderly mother who was in great difficulty.heart wrenching situation when my daughter screamed Baba, Oba mey dI am drowning) and I was not able to save her,o he recalled the scene witheyes.OMy father and brother were on the motorway and were crying and watchihelplessly. After an hour of struggle with gushing water, the people on themanaged to procure ropes and throw it to us. I tied my mother first with thmy daughter and at the end my son,o he saiFazle Amin, who works as a driver in a project run by the Fata Health Secronce his family shifted to a safe place on the motorway it gave him strengtdecided to shift all the people clinging to the fenceOOne by one I tied rope around the villagers struggling near the fence andpulled by the people on the motorway. The speed of the water was hamperas it was difficult to hold a barbed fence with one hand and tie the rope rouof the stranded villagers with the other,o Fazle Amin saiOMy brother was very angry with me and was shouting at me to hold the rout of the water, but I decided to help in shifting and saving all the peopleto the motorway,o he explained.He shifted 13 people, including a woman Rubina, the daughter of Dost Mohman who was filmed struggling against the gushing water and the video waalmost every national and international TV channeAfter remaining in the water almost for five hours, Fazle Amin was injuredexhausted and it was difficult for him to save the remaining two people. OnMohammad and the other a woman, Gulnaz, who lost her daughter and fatflood. Other people eventually saved bothOM hands were bleedin . I was exhausted and unable to move. B that ti

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