He saved lives of passengers trapped on the ill-fated bus in Brisbane on Friday which saw Indian migrant and beloved member of the Indian community, Manmeet Alisher being killed in a cruel attack.
Aguek Nyok arrived in Australia from South Sudan as a refugee. Fairfax reported that he arrived in Melbourne in 2005 and now lives in Brisbane with his family that includes four children.
He drives a taxi for living and was in Moorooka, Brisbane that morning for a haircut when he saw the bus that Manmeet was driving, on fire.
He rushed over, kicked the door of that burning bus and provided an escape route to passengers trapped inside the bus where Manmeet was set alight.
He told the media that it took three kicks to open the back door which was locked due to automatic mechanism. A mother with her child escaped the fire alongwith other passengers.
But he couldn’t save Manmeet.
After the door was open, Nyok saw the bus was filled with smoke and found it too hard to even attempt to rescue the driver.
Hailed for his attempt to save lives in the horrific attack on the bus, Nyok will soon be nominated for a bravery award by Brisbane Premier.
Nyok doesn’t believe he has done something special but equally shocked by the attack, told Fairfax that ‘’
Nyok also met Manmeet’s elder brother Amit, who is in Brisbane to take Manmeet’s body home to India. ()
Source: Network Ten
In a private meeting arranged in Brisbane, Nyok broke down and was in tears when he met Amit Alisher and his friends.
‘Why did it have to be him?’ he told Channel Ten.
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