01 December 2014
NSRI Strandfontein duty crew were activated by the Transnet National Ports Authority following reports from Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services that they had been alerted and were responding to reports of a drowning incident at the Monwabisi Tidal Pool suspected to be a child missing under water.
NSRI Strandfontein rescue
swimmers, WC Government Health EMS rescue dive squad and an EMS ambulance, the
SA Police Services and a Police Dive Unit and Law Enforcement responded to join
Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services.
NSRI spokesperson Craig
Lambinon said on arrival on-scene it was confirmed by a Khayelitsha family that
earlier in the evening their 11 year old boy had failed to exit the tidal pool
after going swimming and was now missing and suspected by them to be missing in
the tidal pool.
Lambinon said NSRI rescue
swimmers, EMS rescue divers, Fire and Rescue Services rescue divers and Police
divers commenced a coordinated sweeping line search walking and free diving in
the tidal pool and during the search the body of the child was located and
recovered from under water.
Lambinon said the body of the
child has been handed into the care of the Forensic Pathology Services and
Police have opened an inquest docket.
“Our sincere condolences to
the boy’s family Lambinon added.
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