9-year-old boy gets sick playing in the inflatable and drowns in the municipal pool

A terrible tragedy has devastated the small community of Waikerie, a rural town in the Riverland region of South Australia. ONE 9 year old boy drowned at the local municipal swimming pool after becoming sick while in the water he played on the inflatable set up in the same pool🇧🇷

The drama in the early afternoon of last Saturday, when the little cyrus buck he was swimming and playing with friends in the popular pool. For reasons yet to be determined, the baby got sick and ended up underwater.

According to the company that manages the pool on behalf of the municipality, a Saves lives trained, who was on duty, immediately jumped in, pulled the unconscious boy out of the water and she desperately tried to revive him🇧🇷

Little Cyrus was loaded into an ambulance and rushed to the nearest hospital but all efforts to save him were in vain. His condition was already desperate and he died shortly after being admitted to the emergency room.

“The lifeguard assisted by the pool team practiced resuscitation maneuvers until the arrival of the emergency services”, says the company in a statement, noting that the large inflatable obstacle course, installed in the center of the pool, is not related to the activity. the pool. had all the legal requirements foreseen in the country.

The company also guarantees that “it will offer all possible support to the child’s family and friends in this difficult time” but also “to the community and members of our team at the center who are shocked and saddened by this incident”.

Investigations into the circumstances of the accident are still ongoing. According to an initial reconstruction of the facts, the alarm went off around 3:30 pm on Saturday. After rescue and transport to the hospital, the boy was pronounced dead at around 4:00 pm. The tragedy shook the town of 2,600 people, but residents rallied to support the boy’s parents and three older brothers.