TORONTO: A quick-thinking Sikh saved the life of a drowning teenage girl, as he used his turban to pull her out of an ice-cold river. The 65 year old Avtar Hothi, a farmer from Kamloops, British Columbia, used his turban to save the teen who fell into the North Thompson River.
The "hero" and his son Paul were working at their family farm in Heffley Creek when they heard the cries for help. "I am very proud of him. We were trying to look around for branches, and he just sprung to action, took off his turban right away, threw it in the water and pulled her to shore," Paul said to a media source. He added the girl was around 14 years of age, and he didn't know how she fell into the water.
"She was just in shock at the moment we pulled her out of the water. She was freezing basically. We quickly covered her up with a blanket to warm her up. We used his (father) turban as a rope because it would have been a lot harder just to pull someone up off shore," Paul added. Someone brought a blanket and the lady was calmed down before she was returned to her relative safely.
