Nine-year-old pupil drowns in hotel swimming pool
The lifeless body of Bol-Garang Diar, a Primary One pupil at Credo Day-care, Nursery and Primary School in Laroo Division, was found at Bomah Hotel swimming pool on Tuesday evening. COURTESY PHOTO
What you need to know:
- He noted that the management of the two institutions [Bomah Hotel and Credo Nursery and Primary School] will be held accountable for the demise of the boy.
- Efforts to get comments from the school management were futile. The deceased’s family fled from civil unrest in South Sudan into Uganda in 1994.
Gulu. A nine-year-old boy of South Sudan origin has drowned in a hotel swimming pool in Gulu Municipality.
The lifeless body of Bol-Garang Diar, a Primary One pupil at Credo Day-care, Nursery and Primary School in Laroo Division, was found at Bomah Hotel swimming pool on Tuesday evening.
The deceased was part of 82 pupils who had been taken to the hotel for their routine swimming lessons at the children swimming pool.
A report obtained by Daily Monitor indicates that after an hour of swimming, the pupils were taken back to school but the authorities realised Garang was not among them.
Aswa Region police spokesperson Jimmy Patrick Okema said the body of Garang was later found in the swimming pool after a search.
“When the teachers reached school, they realised one of the pupils was missing. They got concerned and started calling his parents to find out whether he (Garang) had reached home but the response was ‘no’. However on searching the swimming pool, his body was discovered lifeless,” Mr Okema said.
He said the deceased was residing with his parents in African Quarters, Pece Pawel Central in Pece Division.
Mr Okema said the police have arrested a swimming pool attendant at the hotel. He said a case has been opened against the suspect at Gulu Central Police station where he is being detained.
Mr Okema said the body of the deceased was taken to Gulu Regional Referral Hospital for a post-mortem.
Mr Stephen Onen, a lawyer of the deceased’s family, said they are awaiting the post-mortem results.
Mr Onen said the deceased’s body was found in the adult swimming pool, a matter that they want to pursue.
He noted that the management of the two institutions [Bomah Hotel and Credo Nursery and Primary School] will be held accountable for the demise of the boy.
Efforts to get comments from the school management were futile. The deceased’s family fled from civil unrest in South Sudan into Uganda in 1994.
2010. In January 2010, a student of Alliance High School in Gulu Town identified as Ahmed Fayid drowned in a swimming pool at Acholi Inn Hotel.
