Two kids who were visiting a villa with their grandfather yesterday were found dead at the pool in the afternoon. The pair were presumed to have drowned.
It seemed like a normal day for MM, a 60-year-old water tank driver, who went to a villa in Batununggul Village, Klungkung to deliver water yesterday at around 3:30pm. MM’s granddaughters, MUD, 6, and MJ, 5, went along with him and later asked for his permission to take a dip in the villa’s swimming pool.
“The victims were already forbidden to use the pool by their grandfather. However, because he was busy filling the water tank, the witness forgot about his two grandkids,” Klungkung Police’s spokesman Agus Widiono said.
MM was filling the villa’s water tank when he realized he had lost sight of MUD and MJ. He asked the villa’s employee, ET, 23, to look for them. ET was shocked when she saw the two girls at the bottom of the pool.
She immediately screamed for MM and the two immediately jumped into the pool to retrieve MUD and MJ. They remained unconscious after getting CPR, and were then rushed to a clinic nearby.
“However, the two were pronounced dead [by the medical staff],” said Agus.
This case serves as another reminder for parents and guardians to constantly keep watch over their children in swimming pools. On June 6, a 4-year-old was found dead at a pool in Depok, West Java after he went from the kiddie pool to the adult pool unnoticed. No lifeguards were on duty the moment the tragedy struck – but even if they were, it was no guarantee that the boy would have survived since none of the lifeguards were certified (and some can’t even swim).
