Monday, August 17, 2015

Teenage girl feared drowned in the sea – Daily News

     
     
     
 
 
     
 


 
     
     
     

         

                 

A teenage girl feared drowned in the sea outside Simrishamn. Her father was found floating in the water and have been hospitalized. “He has a serious or life-threatening injuries,” said Sara Frost Mountain-Lowery at Region Skåne.


                 
             

         
 
         
         

             
                 
                 
                 

                     

 

A teenage girl feared drowned in the sea outside Simrishamn. Her father was found floating in the water and have been hospitalized. “He has a serious or life-threatening injuries,” said Sara Frost Mountain-Lowery at Region Skåne.

Rescue Service received an alarm if two drownings at Haväng next Ravlunda firing range at 14 o’clock on Monday. A man in his 40s has been taken to hospital.

– There were people on the beach who saw that he floated out to sea. They helped him in and began cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He is taken to the hospital in Ystad, says Claes Jeppsson, field officer at the Civil Protection League Sörf.

 
        
             
     
     
 

The man was unconscious but alive when the ambulance arrived.

– He has a serious or life-threatening injuries, says Sara Frost Mountain-Lowery, press officer at the medical Skåne Region.

Rescue teams searched after his daughter, who is a young teenager, with three boats and a rescue helicopter. The work was complicated by the strong wind. Divers could not go below the surface.

– It blows a lot and high waves. There is zero visibility in the water, says Claes Jeppsson.

After three hours, at 18:42, was canceled the search.

– We found that that this person is not on the surface or in shoreline, says Daniel Lindblad, press officer at the Swedish Maritime Administration.

He says that the case probably will be handed over to the police and that a notification of a disappeared person is established.

The last few days have several people died in drowning accidents.

On Friday drowned a one-year child in Umeå and on Saturday a two-year boy in Sjöbo Municipality in a pool. On Saturday, also died a woman in a bathing area in Landskrona.


 

                     

                 
         

         
         
     
 
         
         
 
 
 
 
 
         
     

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