A group of Sikh men in Canada set aside religious code to rescue two hikers stranded in a waterfall pool.

Kuljinder Kinda was hiking with four friends in Golden Ears Provincial Park in British Columbia when they came across two men who had slipped on a rock and fallen into a pool below a waterfall, according to news reports.

Mr Kinda and his friends removed their turbans to fashion a makeshift rope with which they hauled the pair to safety in a rescue that had been widely lauded on social media.

Footage of the incident had gone viral after Mr Kinda shared it on WhatsApp and it made its way to hiking groups on social media platforms like Facebook.

He told reporters that the stranded hikers initially asked them to call emergency services, which they could not do because they did not have cellphone service.

The five men tried to look around for help – unsuccessfully – and then came up with the idea of removing their turbans to create a rope.

A video posted online showed them working together to create a makeshift rope to pull the two hikers to safety.  – ndtv.com