Four-year-old Emirati girl drowns in water tank

Sharjah — A four-year old Emirati girl drowned in a water storage tank in the courtyard of her parents' residence in Al Homa locality of Al Zaid, an area affiliated to the Sharjah emirate on Saturday afternoon.

By Mohsen Rashed

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Published: Mon 20 Feb 2006, 10:01 AM

Last updated: Sat 4 Apr 2015, 6:50 PM

The girl apparently fell inside the water storage tank in which the family stores water while she was playing unattended.

She was rushed to Al Qasimi hospital in Sharjah, where all efforts by the doctors for over an hour to revive her including artificial resuscitation of the heart, were in vain.

The cause of death was stated to be ''drowning asphyxiation''.


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