With mom by side, 15-year-old swimmer dies in Salt Lake pool
With mom by side, 15-year-old swimmer dies in Salt Lake pool
KOLKATA: A 15-year-old swimmer died on Tuesday morning while practicing the art of underwater swimming next to her mother — herself a national-level swimmer — at a Salt Lake swimming pool.
Doctors suspect this to be a case of sudden cardiac death (SCD) but cops are awaiting a postmortem report to ascertain the actual cause of death.
Aleina Dutta Bhattacharya, a class X student of a New Town school and a resident of Salt Lake AE Block, was a trained swimmer who had been undertaking swimming lessons since 2015 at the Olympic-standard swimming pool opposite to Bikash Bhavan.
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Her mother, Dalia, too was taking lessons along with her in underwater swimming around 9 am when the incident happened.
Family members said that she had no past ailments that could have triggered the cardiac arrest.
With mom by side, 15-yr-old swimmer dies in Salt Lake pool
“She had recently started practicing underwater swimming. On Tuesday, she was under water for close to a minute. While others practicing with her had come up to the surface by the time set by the trainer, she didn’t come up. Her mother and others dived deep looking for her and found her unconscious in the deepest portion of the pool,” said Gouranga Lal Dutta, Areina’s grandfather, who is also a trained swimmer.
Both of Aleina’s parents are techies and are expert swimmers. Aleina has a younger sister who is in class IV and practices swimming at the same pool.
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Sources said Aleina was found unconscious in a seated posture, resting on her back with her legs crossed at the deep end of the pool. She was applied cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) before she was rushed to a private hospital less than 500 metres away but doctors declared her dead on arrival.
TOI visited the Bidhannagar Swimming Association after the incident, where employees said the pool had been shut after the incident. According to the officials of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation — the custodian of the pool — all precautionary measures had been followed before allowing the girl into the pool.
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