Child drowns at Phuket water park
published : 24 Feb 2020 at 11:08
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Achadthaya Chuenniran
PHUKET: A 3-year-old boy drowned in a pool at a popular water park on Sunday evening, police said.
The drowning at the Blue Tree Water Park was reported about 6.30pm.
William Watson, a British national, and his Thai wife Sumitra said they were at the water park with their two sons, aged 7 and 3, and other families.
Mrs Sumitra said she was watching her 7-year-old son playing in a pool about 120 centimetres deep. Her other son, John, was running on the edge of the pool and suddenly fell into the water and sank out of sight.
She called for help and a lifeguard went into the pool and brought the unconscious boy to the surface.
Rescuers rushed the child to Thalang Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The autopsy showed he drowned.
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Vocabulary
- autopsy: a medical examination of a dead person’s body to find out why they died - การชันสูตรศพ
- drowning (noun): dying from sinking under the water and being unable to breathe - การจมน้ำ
- lifeguard (noun): a person who is employed at a beach or a swimming pool to rescue people who are in danger in the water - ผู้ดูแลความปลอดภัยในการทำกิจกรรมนันทนาการทางน้ำ และช่วบชีวิตคนตกน้ำ
- pronounced dead: officially confirmed to have died -
- sank: caused something or someone to go down below the surface or to the bottom of a liquid or soft substance; past tense of "sink" - จม
- unconscious : in a sleeplike condition, usually from an illness or injury - หมดสติ
- Keywords
- water park
- water
- park
- pool
