The shocking news of death of the 14-year-old Seenu Atoll School boy, Yoonus Hussain left entire Hulhumeedhoo gripped in grief
The death of the 14-year-old Seenu Atoll School Grade 8 boy, Yoonus Hussain, has left entire Hulhumeedhoo gripped in grief. He died of drowning into the channel, which is being excavated between Meedhoo and Hera, on Sunday evening around 15:45 hrs. Hulhudhoo Meedhoo Hospital confirmed his demise shortly after he was brought there.
Yoonus Hussain, along with five of his class mates, went for swimming to the channel between Meedhoo and Hera after coming from school. According to one of his companion, they were playing fun games in the channel before Yoonus Hussain and he drowned into a deep dugout. “Yoonus Hussain was already dead when he was taken out from water“an eyewitness said. According to reliable sources within Meedhoo, Yoonus Hussain did not know swimming or his friends who accompanied with him.
Today it has become an obligatory measure for schools, NGOs and other responsible authorities to make people aware about safety at sea. Learning to swim must be made compulsory within school levels and special training programs need to be conducted. Similar cases of deaths occur very often throughout the nations but people pay little or no attention whatsoever.
Posted by Ahmed Azleem
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