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A 17-year-old student from China died in hospital Sunday with his mother at his side after being found floating unconscious in Alice Lake near Squamish on Saturday afternoon.
The unidentified boy was swimming with a group of students from Bodwell High School in North Vancouver during a class field trip, police say, when he started struggling in the water.
After being treated on the shore and airlifted to B.C. Children’s hospital, he was pronounced dead early Sunday morning, according to RCMP Cpl. Dave Ritchie. The boy’s mother, who had been visiting Canada on holidays, was with him when he passed away, police say. The drowning is being investigated by the B.C. Coroners Service.
Squamish resident Gord Addison said he was at the other side of the lake with his children, who were enjoying a swim in the warm water, when he saw the incident taking place on the north side of the lake at around 2:30 p.m.
A large crowd of people gathered at the water’s edge, and later paramedics arrived and tried to resuscitate the boy, before an air ambulance touched down on a sandy beach to fly him away.
On the way out of the park, Addison saw a school bus full of teenage students stricken with grief.
“There were some girls crying,” he said. “It’s extremely disappointing and tragic. This is a place where everyone goes to have fun.”
Addison said he spends a lot of time at Alice Lake, and the only other fatality he can remember was in 1996, in a drowning which he believed involved another foreign student.
It’s not clear what kind of supervision the students were under during Saturday’s trip.
On Sunday at the campus of Bodwell High School, several staff members said the school’s administration would address questions on Monday.
One family was packing up a set of kayaks, and a father said his son was the one who pulled the drowning student from the lake. The son was not ready to talk about his experience.
A group of nine Asian students walked out of the school clearly in distress, and a female student said they could not talk about their friend’s death without authorization from the school.
The teen’s death comes on the heels of a new study by the Lifesaving Society, that shows ethnic groups including Asian newcomers to Canada are at a higher risk of drowning while swimming or boating.
The study, commissioned in May 2010 and conducted by Ipsos Reid Public Affairs, focused on a population of respondents born in Canada and a population of respondents from the Chinese, South Asian, southeast Asian and Muslim communities not born in Canada.
It found that ‘new Canadians’ — particularly those who have been living in Canada for less than five years — are four times more likely to be unable to swim than those born in Canada. |
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发表于 2010-7-19 13:28:00
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发表于 2010-7-19 14:31:26
发表于 2010-7-20 03:23:43
个人觉得新到一个地方,一切都不熟悉,尽量不从事有危险的户外活动,游泳可以去室内的游泳馆啊1