Yesterday, Thursday, civil defense teams in Al-Ahsa Governorate (eastern Saudi Arabia) recovered the body of a 10-year-old child, following a tragic drowning accident in a water body belonging to the King Abdullah Housing Complex, south of the city of Hofuf.
According to the details narrated by eyewitnesses from the people of the area, 3 children went to a site where rainwater is collected and entered it surreptitiously during the last hours of the day. And when they were having fun and playing with water and swimming in the outskirts of the water body, they were exposed to a drowning incident.
While two survived, the third drowned until he disappeared from view into the 3-metre-deep water, which is characterized by its muddy floor and full of algae and grass, making it more difficult to find the child.
Immediately, civil defense teams came to the site, accompanied by a group of specialized divers. The search operations continued for more than 4 hours until the drowned child died, with the support of government service agencies.
And the Saudi Civil Defense account tweeted on the “X” platform (formerly Twitter): “The Civil Defense in Al-Ahsa retrieves a child who drowned in a rainwater collection site – we ask God to make him an intercessor for his parents.”
In addition, the people of the King Abdullah housing neighborhood demanded the necessity of finding quick and appropriate solutions to the rainwater collection site, given the danger the site represents to children, in addition to being a site for insects and mosquitoes to gather, and thus is considered a threat to public health.
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