MEP saves two from burning car

A left-wing party leader in Poland has rescued a two-year-old boy and his father from a burning car, winning praise across the political spectrum days before a national election.

The car collided with a lorry and began to burn on Monday evening in Tabor, south of Warsaw. Robert Biedron, who leads the Spring party and is a Member of the European Parliament, helped the father and child until rescue workers arrived.

Local firefighters posted a photo on Facebook of themselves with Biedron, praising him and saying that “like a real fireman he went to the burning car with a fire extinguisher”.