Roy Koglams is the soldier who drowned during a military vacation in Ashkelon

Corporal Kuglams, from Jerusalem, was 19 years old when he died. On the Facebook page of the Boyar school, where he attended, it was written that he was a "smiling and funny boy, a creative, flighty and sensitive boy". The funeral will take place in the bosom of the family, who asked to avoid media coverage

Amir Bohbot

04/08/2022

Thursday, 04 August 2022, 20:52 Updated: 21:10

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Roy Kuglams (photo: IDF spokesman)

Corporal Roy Kuglams, 19 years old from Jerusalem, passed away last night (Wednesday) after apparently drowning during a military vacation in Ashkelon. On the Facebook page of the Boyer school, where Roy studied, it was written that he was a "smiling and funny boy, a creative, flighty and sensitive boy" The funeral will take place in the bosom of the family, who asked to avoid media coverage.

"When we arrived at the scene, we saw an unconscious 19-year-old man on the edge of the pool," said an MDA paramedic after the drowning incident yesterday.

"He was not breathing and had no pulse when people on the spot began to give him medical treatment. We were told that the lifeguard pulled him out of the water while he was unconscious, we gave him medical treatment and performed advanced and prolonged resuscitation operations, in the end we had to pronounce him dead."

At the same time as this drowning incident, last night another young man about 20 years old drowned at Dalila beach in the city.

MDA first reported that the young man was given medical treatment and CPR, and that he was taken to the Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. Basics," said the paramedics who arrived at the scene.

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