Homs-Sana
A child drowned in an irrigation waterwheel in Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs while he was swimming.
Brigadier General Ghiath Akil, Director of Civil Defense in Homs, said in a statement to SANA reporter that the branch operations room received a report about the drowning of a thirteen-year-old child in an irrigation waterwheel near Al-Basel Stadium in Baba Amr neighborhood while swimming in the waterwheel. Immediately, a rescue team was formed in cooperation with the Homs Fire Brigade and the people and During the search, the child's body was found dead near the Cardinia Tower in the Ghouta neighborhood of the city.
Two weeks ago, rescue teams in Homs retrieved the bodies of two young men who drowned in the Rastan Dam lake, north of Homs.
