Police on Sunday came to the rescue of an ailing, bed-ridden Thai man in his 30s at a roadside shophouse in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao istrict after a citizen alerted the Pavena Foundation for Women and Children on Saturday that the man had called for help from passers-by.

A 80-year-old bed-ridden man was rescued just in time before a fire swept through his house and 10 others at a community in Chon Buri’s Muang district on Tuesday night, police said.