In Ukraine, the number of deaths on the water has increased: rescuers urge to observe safety rules
Compared to last year, the number of deaths on the water increased by 20%. Therefore, since the beginning of 2023, the State Emergency Service has recorded 640 deaths in water bodies, of which 60 are children.
Only yesterday a 10-year-old boy drowned in the Kiev region. On August 3 at 14:16 a message was received from the operational and dispatching service of the Obukhiv district that the village. Khodosivka, on the street. A boy, born in 2013, disappeared during swimming at the Olympic complex on the territory of one of the complexes.
Personnel of the 44th state fire and rescue unit of Chabany village was sent to the scene. With the help of floats, personnel conducted reconnaissance.
At 16:22 the rescuers of the MRI of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine lifted the body of the boy to the surface.
Emergency rescue workers gently remind citizens that you should not swim in unknown places. In addition, when visiting water bodies, it is forbidden to swim to small vessels, swim beyond the bathing limit marked by buoys, jump into the water from structures, in places with uncertain depth and condition of the bottom, use car chambers, rafts, sunbeds, boards, etc. for swimming.
Also, rescuers urge parents to monitor the leisure of the little ones and not allow them to visit even the smallest bodies of water on their own.
State Emergency Service of Ukraine
