Footage has emerged of the moment two Spanish tourists were saved from drowning by a lifeboat crew along with a bar worker who jumped in to try and rescue them.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) said a lifeboat was launched after reports people were in the River Thames near Temple Pier in central London.
As the crew neared the scene they found three people, aged in their 20s, clinging to the river wall as a crowd of people was unable to get to them from the Embankment.
Kevin Maynard, lifeboat station manager, said: "We could hear shouting as we arrived and someone in the crowd was flashing a light into the water to guide us to the casualties.
"There were three men in the river who were trying to cling on to a bit of wall but the tide was sweeping them along.
"As the boat arrived on scene, one of the men lost his grip on the wall and sank below the water.
"In a panic, he then grabbed one of the other men and pulled him from the wall, with both men now struggling to stay afloat.
"We arrived just in time and got all three safely aboard the lifeboat."
Mr Maynard said one of the men was suffering from hypothermia. All three had swallowed a lot of water.
He added: "They were lucky lads and could all too easily have died. We've chalked this up as three lives saved."
One of the tourists is believed to have been sitting on the river wall after a night out and fell into the water.
His friend then went in to rescue him, but they were unable to get out.
A Spanish-speaking worker at a nearby bar heard their cries for help, stripped to the waist and managed to keep the exhausted tourists above water, before he himself got into difficulties.
Mr Maynard said: "The bar worker helped these men by keeping them afloat but then found his own life in danger.
"His intentions were good, but our advice is never go into the River Thames to rescue someone."
The men were taken to Tower lifeboat station and given into the care of the London Ambulance Service.
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