Record number of drowning incidents in the first week of July
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 @ 6:39 PM
NINETEEN people have drowned in just 10 days since the start of July in swimming pools, rivers or the sea, half of these being children.
Four children lost their lives over the course of one weekend and two fishermen in their 30s plus a bather aged 80 drowned in rivers in Galicia in three separate incidents.
A four-year-old boy lost his life in a public outdoor swimming pool in Borja (Zaragoza) on Saturday and a two-year-old boy drowned in the pool at his home in Campotéjar Alto, near Molina de Segura (Murcia) the following evening.
And the body of a 12-year-old boy was pulled out of the river Daró in La Bisbal d'Empordà (Girona) over the same weekend.
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