A 12-year-old Russian girl has died 11 days after she was trapped underwater for almost 15 minutes when her arm was sucked into a swimming pool pump at a Turkish resort, according to a report.
Alisa Adamova was vacationing with her parents at the four-star Sunhill Hotel in Bodrum when her arm became lodged in the pump after she came down a slide, according to The Sun.
Witnesses have claimed that no lifeguard was on duty at the time.
“We frantically called the hotel staff to switch off the pump, but none of the staff came to help,” Polish tourist Tomasz Grushalski said. “It took 10 minutes to switch the pump off and after that it was still impossible to get her out at first.”
The girl’s mom Natalya Adamova, from St Petersburg, told Fontanka news agency: “Her dad dived and saw our child stuck underwater. He tried to pull her out but her hand was very strongly sucked into the pump pipe.”
She said other guests rushed to assist, “but even after hotel workers turned off the pump, they could not free her hand. Then he and seven other guests broke the pipe and pulled Alisa out along with a piece of pipe on her arm.”
Alisa was give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and rushed to a hospital, where Russian doctors arrived to try and help save her life, but she died 11 days later.
A Russian diplomat urged Turkish authorities to take action.
“We hope that Turkish justice will establish the circle of persons guilty of this tragedy, and that they will bear punishment they deserve,” the official said.
Three senior staffers at the hotel have been ordered not to leave the country while police conduct an investigation.
“We know that life must go on but we will never be the same again,” the distraught father said.
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