Mohammad Riaz Ahmad's tale of survival and gift of life

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Pakistani expat recounts his tale of survival and how a hand of God pulled him out of death. Latest news from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos

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00:00A very good morning to all of you. I am here with Gulf News and I just want to

00:09share one of a very recent incident that happened to me two weeks ago on 13th of

00:21April 2019. We had a planned activity to go to Jabal Jais along with my

00:31colleagues and my friends and perform the zipline and everything went really

00:36great. We enjoyed the place, we enjoyed the zipline experience. It was one of the

00:41best experiences ever. We completed the entire activity and by the time it was

00:48afternoon we started moving back. I was driving alone in my car and I

00:58started from the top of the parking area on the top of Jabal Jais.

01:07I started from there and incidentally it started raining heavily and but still I

01:13was driving slow and everything was fine until I came and reached the Jabal Jais

01:21parking deck number 7. Just adjacent to this area what happened the rain was

01:33falling heavily due to which the road became flooded and I was driving on the

01:41main road and just while I was driving my car the water, the depth of the

01:49water became so high that my car got swept away from the road inside the

01:57valley. The valley which was going deep downwards and my car was completely out

02:05of control. It's a very strong car, it's Honda Civic saloon car but then when the

02:11water pushed my car into the valley it was completely out of control and I was

02:17just sitting and waiting for something to happen because the valley was

02:24sweeping my car away, the flood water was sweeping the car away and the flood

02:31water was all gathering inside my car and the water was up to here and this is

02:38the point when I really decided and you know I mean I recognized that it's

02:45time for me to go because there is no way I could escape death now. I was

02:51trying to open the door it was completely jammed because of the flow

02:54of the water and then lastly what I tried to do I picked up my mobile and I

03:02wanted to call my wife and say some last words during that time but unfortunately

03:08the mobile was gone because there was no signal and the touch was not working as

03:12well because of all the water which came into my car. So when the water came up

03:19to this height I closed my eyes and I kept on saying Kalma Shahadat and I

03:26kept on saying repeatedly because I knew that when I will open my eyes I will not

03:31be in this world I will definitely be in the next world. I kept on saying

03:35Ashadu alla ilaha illallahu wa ashadu anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasooluhu

03:40repeatedly repeatedly so this really you know made my heart a bit relaxed and I

03:47was not fearing the death anymore because I knew that this is the time and

03:53there is no way I can escape death so I kept on waiting. Suddenly what happened

03:58while the car was sweeping away during this time incidentally I got a huge blow

04:06I mean I don't know what happened from outside the car I had a huge blow I was

04:11seat belted on my driver's seat that I was thrown from this seat to the

04:17passenger seat and then miraculously the car stopped moving and it was stable on

04:25some area and when I opened my eyes I was on the passenger seat and water was

04:31still coming flowing from towards the car but the car broke down and there was

04:38no water inside the car I could breathe easily now but I knew that this will

04:44continue for just a few more moments because the weight of the car is so high

04:49and I was sitting inside that it will not last for long so I just kept on

04:54waiting for death to come but for five to ten minutes and nothing happened so

04:58that was the time when I thought that let me try to save myself. The door was

05:04completely jammed there was no way I could go out so what I did I there was

05:10some iron bar from the car which were blocking the window of my passenger seat

05:17so I took out my hands and broke those iron bar threw them away and I made an

05:24small you know area from the window of my passenger seat so that I could I

05:30could try to go out probably but going out was another risk because the water

05:37was still flowing from that place so I didn't straightaway jumped on the water

05:41because I would have flown down and you know maybe you know that was it what I

05:47did I took out my right leg and my right hand and stood firm on one of the

05:54rocks which were just adjacent to my car and the same thing and the same thing I

05:58did to my left leg and my left hand as well I placed it on a second rock

06:05and stood there for some time and saw that just opposite the flood water the

06:11flow of the flood water there is a safe area so my last attempt was supposed to

06:16be a jump and if at all there was any miscalculation if I would have you know

06:21jumped not to the safe area and jumped on the flood water again you know death

06:28was waiting for me because the water was in such a speed that it could you know

06:32just flow away a human being car anything within few seconds down towards

06:37the valley so I just stood there for some time and made some calculations and

06:45then jumped off luckily I crossed the flood water and jumped on the safe area

06:53Alhamdulillah that safe area was the rocks once I jumped there I knew that I

06:59am safe now I crossed the rocks moved up again I knew I have hurt my knee badly

07:07but I knew that it was not a fracture but something is there something is

07:12there probably but the rest of the body was completely fine I just have small

07:17bruise here and that was it it was kind of a miracle I said all my hands my

07:23fingers my legs everything is fine I'm perfectly all right I just moved up on

07:29the road and then one of my colleague who was still there drove by his name is

07:36Umar from my from my team he helped me out he kept me in his car for the full

07:42night because police and ambulance could not reach there because of the flood and

07:45the rain and he made sure that the next morning by 6 o'clock a.m. he drove me to

07:51the safe place to the ambulance from the ambulance I was given the first aid and

07:56then Ras Al Khaimah Army sent a helicopter and in the in the helicopter

08:05I was lifted to safe hospital in Ras Al Khaimah where they conducted the CT scan

08:10for my head neck everywhere and Alhamdulillah everything was fine and

08:15from there I was transported to Sakkar Hospital where again all my scans were

08:24repeated but I had no fracture only an MRI scan revealed a torn ligament on my

08:33right knee and for this the orthopedic surgeon there Dr. Abadal Bari he

08:40performed a very good and very successful knee surgery on my right

08:46knee and I am just on cast for probably totally three weeks and inshallah by

08:54within three weeks the cast will be removed and hopefully I will be able to

08:57walk so it was just a kind of miracle and a kind of God help me and he helped

09:04me that my car was stable on one of the area but the next part was all on my own

09:11so I just want to send a message to everyone whatever happens in your life

09:17please don't lose hope almighty power is there but then he will not lift you up

09:22he will just show you the way and you have to follow the way you have to be

09:26courage you have to be brave you have to make sure that you know you don't lose

09:31hope until the very end and everything will be fine and you will be safe so

09:36that's all for today thank you so much for listening to my experience and all

09:41the best to all the drivers all the best to all the families I'm really lucky

09:45that I'm speaking to you otherwise you know probably I would not be alive by

09:50today if that miracle would not have happened thank you so much Gulf News

09:54thank you so much everyone bye-bye the way

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