7 Indian workers in Singapore presented with appreciation coins for rescuing driver from sinkhole

Seven Indian workers were presented with tokens of appreciation by Singapore's Ministry of Manpower (MOM) for rescuing a driver after her car plunged into a sinkhole, according to a media report on Monday.

The sinkhole developed along the city-state's Tanjong Katong Road South thoroughfare on Saturday.

The migrant workers -- Pitchai Udaiyappan Subbiah, Velmurugan, Saravanan, Veerasekar, Ajithkumar, Chandrisekaran and Rajendran -- pulled to safety the driver whose car had fallen into it.

Each of them received an ‘MOM Ace coin’ from Minister of State for Manpower Dinesh Vasu Dash on Sunday, Channel News Asia reported.

In a video posted on Facebook, Dinesh said that he met the workers at their dormitory after they had finished their work.

"I think this is a very good example of how our migrant workers help society in general," the report quoted him as saying.

"All of them have in their own ways (leaned) forward to support the lady who was in need, and that made a big difference to a situation that would have otherwise been very, very different," he said.

He also wrote in the post that he is "grateful" to the contributions of the workers not only to Singapore's progress but also their "many selfless acts and for helping to make Singapore a gracious society".