Lifeguard didn’t want to get wet |
Girl, 11, drowns at Windsor Water Park
The joyful cry of children in English “ Liquid Leisure‘ water park was suddenly drowned out by a mother’s desperate calls for her daughter…
Terrible tragedy at a birthday party not far from Windsor Castle! On Saturday, an eleven-year-old girl drowned while playing on an inflatable course.
According to “ Daily Mail‘ started at 3 p.m.: A total of around ten children are said to have taken part in an obstacle race on the course. 40 minutes later, a girl, little Kyra, suddenly disappeared. Her mother called her name.
A woman brings flowers to the fence of the park with her daughters
Employees and lifeguards immediately searched the entire course for the girl; Parents also searched the facility’s changing rooms. Some children are said to have said they saw Kyra sink because she couldn’t swim.
According to the “Daily Mail”, eyewitnesses have made serious allegations: the emergency call was only dialed 15 minutes after Kyra’s disappearance was noticed. In addition, the lifeguards would have needed an excruciatingly long 20 minutes to get all bathers out of the lake.
And: You didn’t have the necessary equipment to dive under the course for Kyra – the teen rescuers were simply not prepared for an emergency. So adults jumped into the water to look for the girl there.
An hour and a half after her disappearance, Kyra was finally found and taken to nearby Wexham Park Hospital. But any help came too late: Kyra was declared dead there. The police are now investigating how the tragic incident could have happened.
An eyewitness, according to the Daily Mail, herself a mother of two, described the chaos on site: “It seemed as if there had not been a single adult responsible. One of the lifeguards said he didn’t want to go in the water because he didn’t want to get his sneakers wet. Others had to look for swimming goggles first. I can’t say how unbelievably bad everything was arranged.”
Depressing: Kyra’s mother is said to have been standing in line with her friends at the edge of the course when a woman approached the group and explained that she had lost one of the children. “It was unreal. It got quieter and quieter.”
After the accident, the operators of the water park said they wanted to support the police in clarifying the matter: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, their friends and everyone who had to witness this terrible incident.”