Sharjah Police have begun investigating the death of a drowning student at a swimming pool in a private school in the Emirate of Sharjah in an accident that is the first of its kind in the emirate. .
The Comprehensive Industrial Police Station received a telephone call from Al-Qasimi Hospital stating that a student had died as a result of drowning. He was transferred to the school by the criminal investigation team and the investigation officer at Al-Shamil Industrial Police Station to find out the causes of the accident.
The Director of the Department of Education at the Sharjah Education Council, Mohammed Ahmed Al Mulla, stressed the importance of the Council to follow up all safety procedures in schools, and that the preservation of the lives of students the priority of the schools, and must take all safety measures. Taken in this regard.
The Council, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Education, is following the incident closely and with great interest. A team from the Council has immediately moved to the headquarters of the school, so that a package of deterrent measures can be issued against the perpetrator.
One of the private schools in Sharjah witnessed the drowning of one of its students (four years) in the school swimming pool. The student died while he was being taken to hospital.
The Sharjah Education Council said in a statement that it "received with great sadness and sorrow the death of a student from a private school in Sharjah during the official working hours after a painful accident." He added that he "is following closely with the Ministry of Education the incident with great interest. Immediately moved to the school headquarters team of the board to follow up.
The statement said that the council "is waiting for the legal procedures being carried out by the concerned parties, which started the investigation after the incident, so that a package of deterrent measures can be issued against the perpetrator of the incident. The Council declares that preserving the lives of students is the first and first tasks of the schools» .
The Council stressed in its statement the need to "take all safety measures to protect the lives of students, and will announce the Council after the completion of the investigation procedures decisions taken in this regard."
"Student" holds the school fully responsible
"The school administration bears full responsibility for the death of his nephew drowning in the school's swimming pool," said Ali Saeed al-Kutbi, the student's uncle (Khalifa al-Kutbi, four years old) who died in a private school swimming pool yesterday.
He explained that Khalifa is the last of his brothers, and that he woke up early yesterday in preparation for going to the swimming pool in the school, because he is one of his favorite sports lessons. "We did not expect to send our son to school to die drowning."
He added that the expensive school fees parents think it is a distinct school and provide services and care for students, especially as they contain surveillance cameras everywhere.
He explained that (Khalifa) was studying at school with one of his brothers, and that they were registered in the school for their care and education and attention to them healthily and educationally, noting that immediately after the incident continued to run the school with his brother Abdullah (the father of the deceased), who went to school quickly to know What happened to his son without knowing his death at first.
"As soon as I heard the news, I left my job in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and went to Sharjah. I was surprised by the presence of the police at the school to investigate. The student's body was transferred to forensics to investigate the cause of death," he said.
He pointed out that «negligence and lack of control of the student in the kindergarten stage led to the incident».
He pointed out that the family is waiting for the investigations to be completed and that the health situation of Khalifa's mother is very difficult. She did not believe that her youngest son went to the swimming pool in the school for education and training.
• "Sharjah Education" stressed the need for schools to take all safety measures to protect the lives of students.