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Drowning at Fun Park…Survivor discharged from hospital, police still to take statement

Aug 09, 2012 News

 

Almost three weeks after two lads were pulled from a Fun Park creek, police are yet to take a statement from the survivor.
As a result of the incident one lad, 14 year-old Kevin Ram died while, Raradev Nanand survived the ordeal. Nanand was hospitalized for almost two weeks. According to the teen’s father Rakesh Nanand, to date the police have not yet taken any statement from his son with an aim of finding out what transpired on the day in question.
On July 22, last, 13 year-old De Willem Secondary School Student, Kevin Ram was pronounced dead at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre after he was pulled out from the creek.
The two boys disappeared under the water at around 15:30 hours, moments after they had ventured out into the deeper section of the creek. According to an eyewitness, one of the boys first went into the water and as he went further out he encountered difficulties.
The other boy saw him and tried to assist and he too experienced trouble in the deep water.
A lifeguard saw one of the boys splashing in the water and quickly realized that he was in danger and together with another man who was on a jet ski went to their assistance.
They were able to pull him to land where a nurse and a doctor who there at the time did routine resuscitation procedures that revived him.
He was subsequently rushed to the Diamond Hospital where his condition was stabilised.
But no one knew at the time that another boy had gone under.
It was not until someone said that another boy was missing that a search was carried out.

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