The Deputy Provincial Governor acknowledged that a school within the Isaan province of Khon Kaen should take duty after a 5 year outdated autistic boy drowned at a swimming pool inside the school. The name of the college has not yet been disclosed.
Baan Phai Hospital reported the demise of a 5 yr previous boy named Peach to Baan Phai Police Station yesterday morning. The hospital reported that the physique was still in a faculty uniform and had no visible wounds or indicators of physical harm on his body.
Baan Phai Police officers swiftly initiated an investigation at the school the place Peach had been enrolled. The incident transpired at a swimming pool located behind a classroom building, boasting a depth of roughly one hundred forty centimetres.
From safety digicam footage, Peach is seen descending into the swimming pool alone at about eight.41am whereas different college students had been gathering. A fence surrounds the pool but there’s a small gap in one a half of the fence the place Peach entered the pool.
He tried to swim for about 14 minutes earlier than drowning. The college bus driver found Peach on the backside of the pool and rushed him to the hospital however he died on the way.
The teacher, Juthamas, revealed to ThaiRath that Peach was an autistic scholar. On the incident day, she met Peach in the morning while he entered the varsity. However, she didn’t discover that Peach was not present during the morning activities.
The Deputy Provincial Governor, Charnchai Sornsiwichai, emphasised through the interview with the media that the varsity should take accountability for what had occurred. Charnchai added that the varsity should close to guarantee that the related departments to conduct an investigation.
Peach’s grandmother, 70 yr outdated Lamduan, knowledgeable ThaiRath that Peach lived along with her as a result of his dad and mom relocated to Bangkok for work. She didn’t understand how Peach obtained into the pool and drowned and has not yet had an opportunity to engage with the college on this matter. Peach’s dad and mom are presently en path to Khon Kaen.
Regrettably, No obligation evokes reminiscences of a similar incident involving a seven year previous schoolgirl named Ji Hoon final yr. Ji Hoon was left in a van at Ploenchit Wittaya School in Chon Buri all day and suffocated. The instructor on school bus obligation together with the bus driver confronted a cost of negligence inflicting the dying of another person.
The police disclosed that 129 incidents occurred last year the place youngsters had been left alone in class buses in Thailand between 2014 to 2020.
Despite this alarming statistic, drowning stays one of the most prominent causes of child mortality in the country. According to the Department of Disease Control‘s report from March, 953 children lost their lives to drowning between 2018 and 2022..