Rescue workers had to drill through a wall to help five orphaned kittens who were starving inside en empty house after their mother was killed.

The emergency services were called by their owner Wassana Chuchart, 51, after neighbours heard the faint meows in Songkhla, southern Thailand.

She said the mother cat was hit by a car last Tuesday (February 4) leaving the five newborn moggies unattended.

Wassana searched for them and they were eventually found last Saturday (February 8) morning behind a water tank at her old house.

Rescue workers spent 20 minutes using a drill to make a hole in the wall so they could reach inside to retrieve the kittens.

The babies appeared to be exhausted and starving as they were still waiting to be fed by their mother.

Wassana said she had recently moved to a new house with her pet cats, but the mother had taken the kittens back to the old house before she was killed.

She said: "My cat delivered kittens just after we have moved to this new home one block away from our old place.

"I believe she was more familiar with our old home, so she took the kittens back there.

"However, she was killed by a car and we didn't know where she had been keeping her kittens until the neighbours called me and told me about the kittens crying.''

Rescue workers had to drill through a wall to help five orphaned kittens who were starving inside en empty house after their mother was killed.

The emergency services were called by their owner Wassana Chuchart, 51, after neighbours heard the faint meows in Songkhla, southern Thailand.

She said the mother cat was hit by a car last Tuesday (Feb 4) leaving the five newborn moggies unattended.

Wassana searched for them and they were eventually found last Saturday (08/02) morning behind a water tank at her old house.

Rescue workers spent 20 minutes using a drill to make a hole in the wall so they could reach inside to retrieve the kittens.

The babies appeared to be exhausted and starving as they were still waiting to be fed by their mother.

Wassana said she had recently moved to a new house with her pet cats, but the mother had taken the kittens back to the old house before she was killed.

She said: "My cat delivered kittens just after we have moved to this new home one block away from our old place.

"I believe she was more familiar with our old home, so she took the kittens back there.

"However, she was killed by a car and we didn't know where she had been keeping her kittens until the neighbours called me and told me about the kittens crying.''