Muslim pilgrims walk past tents, a day after a stampede nearby in which more than 700 people died, in Mina, near the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, in this Sept. 25, 2015 photo.

Mustering all her courage and power, a mother, who was caught in the stampede in Mina on Thursday, threw her young child into one of the adjoining tents to save him from being crushed.

Egyptian pilgrims saw her plight from the top of the tents but couldn’t lend her a helping hand. “She was far away and she threw her child at us. His name is Ibrahim. He survived,” the told a local newspaper.

“We saw her trying to stand up to save her child … She was not being able to breathe … She somehow threw him up at the tent and asked us to take care of him,” they said.

They said they brought the child something to eat and provided him new clothes. “Later, we went in search for his mother or any other relatives, but we couldn’t succeed,” they said.

However, they were pleasantly surprised when the next morning someone turned up at the camp saying he is the uncle of Ibrahim. “When the child saw his uncle, he hugged him and so we passed on the child to him,” they said. He said the mother survived and that it was she who told him about the child’s whereabouts. “Umm Ibrahim is recuperating in hospital,” the uncle added.