Qld; Boy pulled to safety by Shoaib Akhtar thanks rescuer

AAP General News (Australia)
01-12-2000
Qld; Boy pulled to safety by Shoaib Akhtar thanks rescuer
] BRISBANE, Jan 12 AAP - A boy pulled to safety from the path of an oncoming taxi by
Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has come forward to thank his rescuer.

Media representatives yesterday were unable to find any trace of the boy, one of dozens
of young autograph hunters who besieged Pakistan's bus after the one day thriller against
India on Monday night.

Pakistan won the match by one run.

But the Courier-Mail reported today that nine-year-old Tye Ingebrigsten, from Deception
Bay, north of Brisbane, was too shaken to say anything …