Man drowns while attempting to rescue eight-year-old son from Raub resort fish pond
KUANTAN, Aug 9 — A man drowned while trying to save his son who had fallen into a fish pond at a resort in Sungai...
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 — A 46-year-old man, Mohamed Hafidz Che Din, tragically drowned at a resort in Sungai Ruan, Raub, while attempting to rescue his eight-year-old son who had fallen into a fish pond. Police were alerted to the incident around 3 pm and found that the victim had jumped into the pond to retrieve a plastic bread bag used as fishing bait for his son.
Upon the son's rescue by a resort worker and an Indonesian national, the victim was not seen for approximately 20 minutes before being discovered near the pond's stairs. Despite efforts to revive him with CPR multiple times, the man was pronounced dead upon arrival at Raub Hospital, with the cause of death determined as asphyxia secondary to drowning.
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