Four-year-old girl drowns in Prachin Buri pond

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Four-year-old girl drowns in Prachin Buri pond

By The Nation

 

 

A four-year-old girl was found drowned in a pond in Prachin Buri’s Mueang district on Tuesday morning.

 

Police were alerted that a body had been found floating on the pond, in Moo 7 village in Tambon Dong Phra Ram, at 10.30 am.

 

The girl was identified as Jiraphat (surname withheld). 

 

Her father (name also withheld) told police that his daughter had disappeared from home and he had unsuccessfully searched for her throughout the night.

 

The pond has steep banks and the girl could not have walk down into the water, police said.

 

She might therefore have accidentally fallen into the water, or she could have been pushed in, they said.

 

Her body was sent to the provincial administration office for an autopsy.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30363150

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-01-29

[from the home of CC]

too sad, she must of been real scared RIP

[stanleycoin]

Tragic, how very sad.

condolences to the family.

R.I.P little one.

 

[Penicillin]

This is beyond heart breaking.  There needs to be swim training available to all kids .  

[mok199]

1 hour ago, Penicillin said:

This is beyond heart breaking.  There needs to be swim training available to all kids .  

Many schools have swimming once a week, but at 4 years ??   My deepest sympathy little warrior..so sad

[Kieran00001]

The following statistics on drowning in Thailand are from the National Injury Survey conducted by the Institute of Health Research, Chulalongkorn University:

• Drowning is the leading cause of death in children aged one year and over in Thailand, causing nearly 2,650 deaths every year.
• Drowning caused almost half (46 per cent) of all child deaths in the 1-4 age group.
• On top of these figures, some 3,000 children nearly drown every year.
• Most drowning occurs in rural areas, during the day, when mothers are busy with housework or other chores and the unsupervised child unexpectedly wanders away.
• More than half (56 per cent) of all drowning deaths occur within 100 metres of the child’s home. For toddlers, this proximity is even more striking. Almost three quarters of drownings (74 per cent) occur within 100m of the home, and two in five occur within 10m of the home.
• Children younger than five account for more than half of all drownings (53 per cent). These children are too young to learn to swim so prevention requires increased supervision, especially as infants develop into toddlers and outstrip a busy mother’s ability to closely supervise them

http://www.richardbarrow.com/2013/03/drowning-is-the-leading-cause-of-death-in-thai-children/

[brling]

21 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

too sad, she must of been real scared RIP

you forgot your usual line, ie "happens worldwide".

[from the home of CC]

44 minutes ago, brling said:

you forgot your usual line, ie "happens worldwide".

nah, that's a gimmee with child fatalities..