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Two girls drowning in the swimming pool of the world, one dead and one critical lifeguard: group drowning of children is common

2022-05-29T04:49:20.830Z


Two 7-year-old girls were drowned at 8 o'clock last night (28th) in the swimming pool of the King's World Clubhouse in a private housing estate in Tsim Sha Tsui. The two were sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in a coma. Among them, the girl surnamed Xiong died, and the other girl from South Korea died today.


Two 7-year-old girls were drowned at 8 o'clock last night (28th) in the swimming pool of the King's World Clubhouse in a private housing estate in Tsim Sha Tsui.

The two were taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in a coma. Among them, the girl surnamed Xiong died, and the other girl from South Korea is still in critical condition today.

Wu Qirong, vice chairman of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Life Saving Staff Association, said that he often faced the collective drowning of children, "I will push you (falling into the water), you will push me (falling into the water), and bury them together." In view of the shortage of lifeguards and the reduced alertness of parents, etc. On the downside, Hu is not optimistic about the unexpected numbers of water sports this summer.


The reporter of "Hong Kong 01" returned to King's Landing this morning to understand and found that the swimming pool of the clubhouse where the accident happened was not open.

"(Group drowning of children) is common, and lifeguards often encounter them." Wu Kairong, vice chairman of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Life Saving Staff Association, pointed out that even if children swim in swimming pools or swimming pools, even if they know swimming skills, there is a risk of drowning during swimming: " Two or even several are buried together, I press you (falling into the water), you press me (falling into the water), one of the turbulent relatives is startled, and the survival instinct soaks up the relatives and hugs and presses, burying and isolating one (falling into the water).” Many times parents Thinking that a child who knows how to swim can take care of other children, Hu emphasized that at the swimming pool and beach, "Parents must watch over their own children, and can't rely on others to help, even if parents can't rely on each other!"

Hong Kong's drowning detection system is far inferior to Europe and the United States

The company, Moshe Pool Technology, introduced the Poseidon drowning detection system to Hong Kong in 2016. Fung Ching-yao, business development director, said that so far only 4 swimming pools in Hong Kong have applied the system, far behind Singapore, Europe and the United States and other countries.

The system digitally detects every corner of the pool and analyzes normal and unusual conditions in the water, including how many swimmers' heads surfaced before and after 10 seconds, the coverage rate of the pool floor tiles before and after 10 seconds, and whether there are objects or human bodies covering the pool floor tiles More than 10 seconds, etc., if any of the above items are abnormal, the system will issue an alarm, prompting the entire pool, lifeguards or other swimmers will be alert and rescue them as soon as possible.

Feng bluntly said that the drowning of a 7-year-old child is distressing. He feels that drowning accidents cannot be completely avoided, but with the assistance of existing technology, early detection can greatly reduce the degree of casualties.

Regarding the public's wariness of the drowning detection system and concerns about privacy issues, he emphasized that the system is not a closed-circuit television, with low pixels and has passed European privacy regulations.

He is very worried that the immediate summer vacation and the loss of lifeguards will greatly increase the number of drownings.

Lifeguard Hu Qirong is also not optimistic about the number of accidents in summer water sports. Although the drowning detection system can provide assistance to lifeguards, he believes that lifeguard training is more important.

With the two-year COVID-19 epidemic, the beaches and swimming pools have been closed for a long time, and the lifeguards have lost their vigilance after laying down for too long. No matter their physical fitness or vigilance, they have to warm up again.

In addition to the shortage of lifeguards, the lack of exercise by swimmers in recent years, the low alertness of parents and the children's drowning in the water all increase the risk of accidents.

He told the public: "Everyone (playing water sports) be careful, accidents can happen at any time."

The incident happened at 8:29 pm yesterday (28th), the police received a report that two 7-year-old girls were suspected of drowning in a coma during swimming in the swimming pool of the King's Landing World Clubhouse, No. 1 Austin Road West, West Kowloon. Immediately after seeing this, call the police.

Rescuers rushed to the scene and the two girls were taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in a coma, but one of the girls was confirmed dead at 9:28 pm.

After the incident, a large number of police officers blocked the scene to investigate the cause of the incident. A lifeguard was at the scene to assist in the investigation, and the swimming pool involved has also stopped operating.

According to sources, the deceased was a 7-year-old girl surnamed Xiong, and another unconscious girl was a 7-year-old Korean national. The police are investigating the relationship between the two.

Girl drowned in swimming pool, two lifeguards and the person in charge were released on bail for falsely reporting the number of people on duty Person on duty sentenced to social service order

Source: hk1

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