https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57342160
The daughter of a taxi driver who was helped from a burning car has thanked a stranger for saving her father's life.
Abdul Awal, 58, was driving his Mercedes on Bellegrove Road in Welling, south-east London, when a man shopping nearby spotted flames and called the fire brigade.
Mr Awal, who has hearing issues, was initially reluctant to leave the car as he thought the stranger wanted a fight.
"This is how humanity should aim to be," daughter Iffath Nowrin said.
"If more people were like this, the world would be a better place."
Mr Awal had been returning from a petrol station early on Wednesday afternoon when his car started to overheat.
The man who helped, who wishes to remain anonymous, was at a Nisa Local when he alerted the authorities to a fire under the bonnet of a car.
Mr Awal continued driving the vehicle, which by now was on fire, so the stranger sprinted towards Mr Awal's taxi, repeatedly knocked on his window and encouraged him to pull over and leave the car somewhere safe.
"You have to physically touch him to get his attention," Mrs Nowrin told the BBC. "The whole world could be up in flames and he'd continue what he's doing.
"The fact he went over and spoke to my dad who was so unresponsive - people are saying, 'You're so lucky this stranger came over to help you.'
"If I saw fire, I wouldn't go towards it.
" wish more people were like him - everybody else there was playing football or filming on their phones, compared to one guy who genuinely actually concerned about my dad's health.
"I am so, so grateful that there are people like this that exist."
Eventually, the stranger, who is in his 30s, grabbed Mr Awal's arm to help move him away from the vehicle towards safety, before the fire brigade arrived to extinguish the fire.
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