Sikh removes turban to help injured child hit by car

A young Sikh has been praised for abandoning religious protocol after rushing to aid an injured child who had been hit by a car. Harman Singh was in his Auckland home on Friday when he heard screeching tyres and ran outside to find five-year-old Daejon Pahia lying in the road.

Singh removed his turban to stem the bleeding from Daejon’s head and helped comfort the boy until an ambulance arrived, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Normally, turbans are only removed in intimate circumstances such as bathing the head or washing the hair, but the 22-year-old told the newspaper: “I wasn’t thinking about the turban. I was thinking about the accident and I just thought ‘He needs something on his head because he’s bleeding.’ That’s my job to help.

“And I think anyone else would have done the same as me.”

Daejon suffered a serious head injury and lacerations to his kidneys after he was hit by a four wheel drive on his way to school, Auckland Now reports.

He is now conscious and able to eat in hospital and his mother Shiralee said she was grateful for Singh’s actions and that her son had been asking about those who helped him.