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Three Senegalese and a municipal policeman rescue a man in the Bilbao estuary

Bilbao (Spain), Jun 22 (EFE) .- (Camera: Jon Garai) Mohamed Diouf and two of his friends, became heroes last Sunday, when they threw themselves into the Bilbao estuary to help a 72-year-old man who had fallen to the water at the height of the Ribera bridge, on the Marzana dock.SOUNDBITES OF MOHAMED DIOUF AND ÓSCAR MACHO. FOOTAGE OF THE BILBAO RIA AND THE RIBERA BRIDGE."On Sunday we were sitting there with our friend, then a person shouted there in the estuary, we see a man of legal age who falls into the river, then I and my two companions are running, there are many people but nobody wants to jump, but me I know how to swim and also my companions can swim, and I said: we are going to save him, without fear and then we fell into the water "."Well, I was on my day off as you say with a friend and my partner when suddenly we heard a loud noise in the estuary and we saw that a lot of people were crowding and then we approached and saw a person who fell into the estuary."