Dacke
08-13-2007, 04:01 PM
Girl dies during midnight dip
Published: 11th August 2007 10:22 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/8158/
A 16-year-old girl drowned early on Saturday morning after going for a swim at an open-air swimming pool in Lund that was closed for the night.
The girl and her friends found their way into Källbybadet in Lund just after midnight. Police were called to the leisure complex at 12.45am and officers found the girl floating in one of the pools.
Police tried to resuscitate the girl at the scene of the accident and ambulance personnel continued on the way to Lund hospital. But at 2am doctors pronounced her dead.
The girls friends, all aged 16-17, were found by the side of the pool in a state of shock. The emergency services called their parents and a crisis group was called in to help those affected.
It has not yet been established how the accident happened.
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This happened in the town where I live. It appears that the girl and her friends snuck into the pool area (which was fenced off), and climbed in under the tarp covering the pool at night-time (in order to keep heating costs down).
On one hand: sure, a young woman like that dying in an accident is a tragedy.
On the other: if you're so stupid you climb in beneath a tarp to go for a swim, well, that's Darwinism for you.
Published: 11th August 2007 10:22 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/8158/
A 16-year-old girl drowned early on Saturday morning after going for a swim at an open-air swimming pool in Lund that was closed for the night.
The girl and her friends found their way into Källbybadet in Lund just after midnight. Police were called to the leisure complex at 12.45am and officers found the girl floating in one of the pools.
Police tried to resuscitate the girl at the scene of the accident and ambulance personnel continued on the way to Lund hospital. But at 2am doctors pronounced her dead.
The girls friends, all aged 16-17, were found by the side of the pool in a state of shock. The emergency services called their parents and a crisis group was called in to help those affected.
It has not yet been established how the accident happened.
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This happened in the town where I live. It appears that the girl and her friends snuck into the pool area (which was fenced off), and climbed in under the tarp covering the pool at night-time (in order to keep heating costs down).
On one hand: sure, a young woman like that dying in an accident is a tragedy.
On the other: if you're so stupid you climb in beneath a tarp to go for a swim, well, that's Darwinism for you.