The man had been stuck in his room for several months, as he was unable to squeeze through the entrance. After several attempts to get him out failed, as he was significantly larger than the door and the stair width, his wife Fatima called the police.

The 'giant man' was securely tied to his bed, which was hooked up to crane ropes and lifted through the fifth-storey window.

As he was too large to be accommodated in a normal-sized ambulance, the man was delivered to hospital in a truck.