'I am no hero', says man who jumped into River Lee to save drowning woman

Mohammed Khathiri said he only did 'what any human being would do'

Mohammed Kathiri beside the River Lee in Cork City, where he saved a woman who fell in. Pictures: Chani Anderson

A father of four who jumped into Cork's River Lee to save a woman after she fell in has insisted he is “not a hero” and only did "what any human being would do".

Mohammed Khathiri, originally from Morocco, happened to be looking out his bedroom window when he spotted a woman sitting by the wall at George’s Quay at about 1pm last week.