The Number of Drownings Climbs

SPN Pool DrowningsAnother week of drownings in Spain, ending yesterday with the death of a minor in a private swimming pool in Chimeneas, Granada.

The incident was reported at 14.20h to 112 and emergency services were dispatched to Calle Yeseras in the said town. However, when they got to the house there was nothing that could be done for the child.

But the toll began on Thursday the 16th shortly before 12.45h in the Club Tenis de Les Borges Blanques (Lérida) where children were participating in a summer camp. Again, the victim was a child and even though a helicopter was dispatched the child was already dead when it arrived.

This was a community pool belonging to the club with two monitors on duty keeping an eye on the ten children in the pool. As a result of the death the two monitors have been charged with negligent homicide.

The next day, Friday there was a drowning involving an 11-year-old French boy in a private pool within an urbanización in Teulada-Moraira, Alicante.

Apparently the boy got up during the night whilst the rest of the family were asleep and fell into the pool without anybody hearing what had happened. When the family got up in the morning, it was to find him floating in the pool. Again, the emergency services could do nothing for the victim as he had been dead for at least an hour.

So far this year, 39 people have drowned with an alarming percentage being minors.

(News: Spain)

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