An off-duty police officer who rescued a burning man after a failed car bomb attack on Glasgow Airport has said his first duty was to save his life.
Constable Stewart Ferguson, 40, had gone to the airport to pick up his parents when the drama unfolded. Speaking publicly for the first time, the father-of-two described how the man seemed "resigned" to burning to death.
He said: "He was well ablaze - clothing, hair, skin - and from the attitude that he was in, lying on his back there was a kind of resignation about him."
Mr Ferguson grabbed a fire extinguisher and began putting out the flames, only for a colleague to begin spraying the man in the face with CS gas.
He said: "Once the flames had been extinguished in his hair and body I aimed the jet in his eyes, just trying to disorientate him."
He added: "It never entered my consciousness to walk away from the guy - I would have been failing in my duty.
"One of the primary duties of a police officer is to preserve life and it doesn't matter whose life that is at the end of the day."
Two men were held after a green Cherokee Jeep, allegedly laden with gas canisters, was driven into the arrivals hall at Glasgow Airport.
Dr Khalid Ahmed remains in a critical condition at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, near Glasgow, where he used to work.
Meanwhile, Dr Bilal Abdullah - the second man arrested - "felt pain" over the war in his native Iraq, a friend said.
