Five-year-old calls 999 when Mum 'wasn't breathing'

A brave five-year-old girl rang 999 when her mum collapsed outside their home and "wasn't breathing".

Zaynab Qasim, who turned six last week, had just got home from school when she saw her mum, Samina Iqbal, 35, fall unconscious.

They just arrived outside the family home in Romford, east London, when Ms Iqbal collapsed in the car last June.

When the frightened schoolgirl couldn’t wake her up, the quick-thinking youngster found her mum’s phone and called for an ambulance.

She told the call handler, Natasha White, her mother was not breathing and that she "fainted".

An ambulance crew arrived to help Ms Iqbal, who was later found to have suffered a debilitating migraine, which caused her to collapse.

(Video via SWNS)