On the 31st, 15 years after the accident in which an elementary school girl was sucked into a water inlet with a lid removed and died in a municipal pool in Fujimino City, Saitama Prefecture, the mayor and others donated flowers at the site of the pool and vowed to prevent the recurrence of the accident. rice field.
Fifteen years ago, on July 31, 2006, a girl in the second grade of elementary school who was visiting a municipal pool in Fujimino City with her family died after being sucked into the water inlet of the pool with the lid removed.
Subsequent investigations revealed the city's sloppy management, including the fact that the water inlet lid, which should have been screwed in, was temporarily fastened with a wire.
On the 31st, 15 years after the accident, Mayor Hiroshi Takahata of Fujimino City and city executives handed flowers to the flower stand set up on the site of the pool and offered silence.
Mayor Takahata said, "I would like to strive to operate public facilities with safety first so that such accidents will not occur again without weathering the accident that lost the precious life of an irreplaceable little girl." rice field.
Since the year following this accident, Fujimino City has been conducting safety inspections of approximately 12,000 public facilities such as nursery schools and elementary and junior high schools every year during the week of late July.