A man who intervened during a medical emergency involving a school bus driver has spoken about his decision to help, describing it as an act of faith. The incident occurred when the bus, carrying frightened children, lost control on a street, and he took action to stop it. He cited a religious teaching about the value of saving lives as his motivation, emphasizing that his actions were driven by selflessness rather than personal gain. His story highlights both quick thinking and a commitment to community safety.
Ebro Ahmed, who acted after driver’s medical emergency, said he hopes incident will show Eritreans ‘in a good way’A man who hopped on to a school bus full of terrified children that was careering down a Minnesota street after its driver had a medical emergency and manually halted it says he was motivated to act by a Qu’ran verse about how saving one life is equivalent to saving all of humanity.“I’m a numbers guy, and those numbers make sense to me,” Ebro Ahmed, 27, said on Friday during an interview about his actions four days earlier in front of his family’s convenience store in Saint Paul, Minnesota. “I didn’t do it for me. It was selflessness in the name of God.” Continue reading...
