An Egyptian teenager was revealed to have aided and saved 51 schoolchildren in Milan when a bus driver hijacked the vehicle and set it on fire. Quick-thinking Ramy Shehatah, a 13 year old, hid his phone when the driver had taken the other students’ phones and managed to make a call asking for assistance while feigning to pray in Arabic while he contacted his father who then contacted police authorities. The driver, 47-year-old Ousseynou Sy, an Italian of Senegalese origin, had hijacked the vehicle, removed the hammers to break glass and doused the bus in petrol as his plan was to set the school bus on fire. The incident occurred on Wednesday; Shehatah’s efforts were essential to the rescue of the abducted as he gave instructions of the bus’ location. BBC reports that Sy had told the students that no-one would survive the attack which he was carrying out in protest for African migrant deaths at sea. Italian police forces located the bus, forced it to stop and broke the rear glass windows to remove the children from danger. Shehatah, who was born in 2005 in Italy despite not having…
Egyptian Teenager’s Actions Save Schoolchildren from Italy Bus Attack
March 22, 2019
