The husband of a woman who died sacrificing herself by pushing their young daughter out the way of a falling tree branch has revealed his desperate attempts to save her.
Madia Kauser, 32, was tragically crushed to death while out on a family walk with her husband Wasim Khan, 33, and their two children near Witton Country Park in Blackburn, Lancashire, on Monday night.
It's understood her five-year-old daughter was in a pushchair which Mrs Kauser managed to push away before taking the full force of the falling branch herself - so that her daughter survived unscathed.
Mr Khan, 33, was playing football just yards ahead with the couple's nine-year-old son when the branch fell.
Speaking of the moment he battled to save his wife as she lay injured, he said: 'I rushed to her. I tried to save her, she was still breathing.'
