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.<br /><br />The emergency services were called by their owner Wassana Chuchart, 51, after neighbours heard the faint meows in Songkhla, southern Thailand.<br /><br />She said the mother cat was hit by a car last Tuesday (February 4) leaving the five newborn moggies unattended. <br /><br />Wassana searched for them and they were eventually found last Saturday (February 8) morning behind a water tank at her old house.<br /><br />Rescue workers spent 20 minutes using a drill to make a hole in the wall so they could reach inside to retrieve the kittens.<br /><br />The babies appeared to be exhausted and starving as they were still waiting to be fed by their mother.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />She said: "My cat delivered kittens just after we have moved to this new home one block away from our old place.<br /><br />"I believe she was more familiar with our old home, so she took the kittens back there.<br /><br />"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.''
