Call for Spain to regularise immigration status of man who twice saved strangers

More than 1,800 people sign petition to help Mouhammad Diouf, from Senegal, who jumped into Bilbao river to stop drownings

More than 1,800 people have backed a call for Spanish officials to regularise the immigration status of an undocumented Senegalese man after his second rescue of a stranger from drowning in the main river in Bilbao.

Mouhammad Diouf was out with a friend on Sunday afternoon when he spotted a man who appeared to be feeling dizzy on one of the city's bridges. He was trying to grab on to the rail when he fell into the water," Diouf told the Guardian. We were quite far away. I threw down my rucksack and went running."