In an extraordinary life-saving gesture, family of a brain-dead Indian expatriate in Saudi Arabia has donated his organs to save the lives of nine Saudis who were in urgent need of organ transplantation.

The organs of the brain-dead Indian, whose identity has so far not been revealed, were removed at a hospital in Riyadh and donated to patients in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, the Okaz newspaper said. The details of the organs donated were also not revealed.