Man desperately tries to escape house after arson attack

This is the moment a man pleaded with his neighbour to kick his door down to help him escape his smoke-filled house after an arson attack.
Taz Murtaza, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, coughed violently as he searched his room for his house keys before collapsing to the floor and shouting for help.
The 47-year-old had decided to film himself after a series of arson attacks in his neighbourhood, which he says have not been taken seriously enough.
Mr Murtaza was given oxygen by paramedics after neighbours managed to drag him from his home following the 4am fire.
He said: 'I'm a really heavy sleeper, so I didn't hear the smoke alarm going off and I didn't hear everyone outside shouting.
'By the time I woke up my bedroom was clogged with white smoke.
'I decided to pick up my phone and film what was happening because it had happened so many times already and I wanted to show people how bad it was.
'But then in the panic I couldn't find my keys, so I went to the window and started shouting to my neighbours to kick the door down because I couldn't get out.
'I nearly choked to death. It was absolutely awful.'
Residents were forced to flee when a blaze first broke out at the terraced house in Midhurst Street, Rochdale, on March 11.