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这篇新闻让人读了心疼;
Mother drowns in apartment building pool
3-year-old girl in critical condition; Posted rules state no one may swim alone; coroner's office says autopsy to be performed
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Residents of a Cote des Neiges apartment building were shocked to discover that one of their neighbours drowned in its small indoor pool on Tuesday night.
Thirty-two-year-old Jing Zhao was found lifeless in the pool at 3250/3270 Ellendale Ave. shortly before 8 p.m. Efforts to resuscitate the woman were fruitless.
Her 3-year-old daughter also was found in the water. The child is listed in critical condition in St. Justine Hospital.
"This is really sad and it makes me think. I mean, I'm a good swimmer, but I could have a heart attack, you never know," said Raja Elberna as she took a reporter up to see the pool.
"Sometimes I think, oh good, I have the pool to myself, but now I will reconsider."
Zhao, her husband, Ging Bing, and child had only lived in the apartment complex for three months.
"They were an immigrant family, like myself," said building superintendent Ivan Rimac, who had been doing renovations on Zhao's apartment Tuesday morning.
"These are hardworking people trying to make a living,"
Rimac said. "I pointed out the husband to the cops when he came home from work last night, but I couldn't face him. It's just sickening; he lost everything."
Located on the roof of the six- storey building, the room the swimming pool is in is locked and can only be opened by a resident with a special key. The area is closed every night at 9.
On Tuesday, a group of tenants from the second floor were using the saunas one floor below the pool. Two teenagers left the sauna, climbed the stairs and went to jump into the pool. They saw the woman at the bottom of the deep end and the child in the shallow end.
The boys ran back to the sauna and alerted adults, who pulled the bodies out of the pool and began mouth-to-mouth resuscitation efforts.
The child coughed, but remained unconscious; the woman did not respond.
There are posted rules stating the pool hours and the fact that there is no lifeguard. Young children must be accompanied by an adult to swim in the pool.
"I have three children of my own and they all learned to swim in that pool," Rimac said.
There are orange lifebuoys at either end of the pool and an emergency phone mounted on the wall. This was the phone used to call 911 when neighbours found the woman and child.
Police and Urgences Sante technicians were called at 7:54 p.m. and arrived at the pool three minutes later.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, said Urgences Sante spokesperson Andre Champagne.
The posted rules state that no one is permitted to swim alone, and Rimac said that if he catches anyone doing so, he will call the police from now on.
An autopsy will be performed on Zhao at the Centre Hospitalier Maisonneuve-Rosemont, said Marie-eve Bilodeau of the Quebec coroner's office.
Results of that autopsy might be available by tomorrow.
asutherland@thegazette.canwest.com
© The Gazette (Montreal) 2005
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发表于 2005-11-23 19:57
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