WATCH: Queensgate residents reveal how they saved neighbours and tried to help man who was killed in fire

Two cousins are telling us how they managed to heroically help save residents from an Inverness fire, whilst also trying to save their neighbour who was killed.

Stoyan Stoyanov and Todor Petrov, who work at Sam's Indian Cuisine, were awake in the early hours of Wednesday morning when they heard the fire alarm go off at their Queensgate flats.

The pair knocked on their fellow residents doors to alert them to the blaze and also tried to save a neighbour.

Despite successfully managing to help get everyone else out, the 57-year-old man died.

21-year-old Todor told us how they kicked the door down of the man's flat to try and save him.

He said: "We heard a voice saying, 'I need help,' I asked him 'can you follow my voice, can you come closer to me?',

"He said, 'no, I need help.'

"I tried to go inside, but the smoke and the heat was too much.

"Plus he had cartons and plastics close to the door, and then I realised it's not going to happen."

Todor says they alerted their neighbours to get out of the building and explains how fire safety tips they learned at school in Bulgaria came in handy.

He added: "We said, 'let's go and wake up the other neighbours'

"We were going up and down the stairs knocking and shouting to get them out.

"Our teachers taught us to be ready if the school went on fire.

"To take our coats, make them wet, to make it easier to breathe."

23-year-old Stoyan Stoyanov tells us how he put his neighbours safety first before his own.

He said: "We wanted to be the last ones coming out, to make sure everyone else was out and safe.

"I was not scared at all.

"This is something we learned in school, we have a fire programme every year teaching us how to help people, so I had this all in my head.

"It's easy to just panic and run away, but I'm not somebody who can do that."

The pair then opened up Sam's Indian Cuisine and offered out teas and coffees, whilst maintaining a two metre distance.

Stoyan added: "They were very appreciative, we tried to keep them smiling and laughing because everybody was emotional.

"Because of the pandemic, we made sure everyone was two metres apart."

Police Scotland confirmed earlier that they were working with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to establish exactly what happened, but the incident is not being treated as suspicious.

A spokesperson said: "Around 2.50am on Wednesday, 14 April, officers were called to reports of a fire within a property on Queensgate, Inverness.

"Emergency services attended, and the body of a 57-year-old man was found within the property.

"He was pronounced dead at the scene.

"The incident is not being treated as suspicious."