Junior high school student died while swimming in the estuary while swimming in the sea Kanagawa Hiratsuka August 19 19:21
On the afternoon of the 19th, two junior high school boys playing in the sea in Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, were washed away, and one of them died in a hospital that was transported to a rescued hospital.
According to police, it was past 1 pm on the 19th, and it was reported that "people were being swept away" near the mouth of the Hanamimizu River in Nijigahama, Hiratsuka City.
Two of the five male junior high school students who came to play were washed away, and one of them was able to reach the shore by himself and was slightly injured.
The other, meanwhile, was found floating on the nearby sea surface approximately one and a half hours after being reported and was sent to a hospital unconscious, but subsequently died.
It is said that Arashi Nakamura (14), a second-year middle school student in Isehara City, died by the police.
At the time, the two were swimming near the mouth of the river and swept towards the sea.
According to Kanagawa Prefecture, there is no beach in the prefecture due to the new coronavirus, but the place where the two people were washed away is not a beach every year.