SYDNEY: An Australian television reporter and a bystander rescued a man from a car engulfed by floodwaters on Thursday, footage of the incident showed.
Will Murray, a journalist with Australia's public broadcaster ABC, was reporting on flooding north of Brisbane, in Queensland, when a man drove a four-wheel drive through floodwaters. The vehicle then stalled and began to sink, the ABC said.
Murray and the other man swam out to the car and pulled the driver from the vehicle moments before it was completely submerged.
"The pair of them definitely saved that man's life," ABC camera operator Liz Pickering, who witnessed the incident, said, according to the broadcaster.
"No doubt about that."
About 170mm of rain had fallen in the town of Morayfield on Thursday when the incident took place, the ABC said.
ABC Australian reporter Will Murray and a bystander rescued a driver from a sinking ute in floodwaters at Morayfield, north of Brisbane, this morning.
The vehicle stalled after entering a flooded road. The pair swam to it and pulled the driver free moments before it fully submerged.
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