13-year-old Delhi boy dies in swimming pool at Mussoorie boarding school

The other students realised something was amiss when he went underwater and did not surface for around a minute and a half. Then they pulled him out and sounded the alarm, police said.

“Since it was routine to hold breath underwater, the students noticed his absence around a minute and a half later and pulled him out. Though the staff tried to resuscitate him through CPR, he could not be revived. They took him to the Community Hospital and doctors declared the boy dead on arrival,” SSI Singh said.

The police were informed of the incident by the hospital at around 7 am, after which they visited the school. “We checked the CCTV footage and took the statements of the children present at the time of the incident, but no foul play is suspected. A postmortem was conducted, but the report is awaited,” Singh said.

The boy’s parents have taken the body back to Delhi and have not filed a complaint, he said.

The Dehradun police said in a statement, “A death memo was received from Community Hospital Mussoorie stating that a 13-year-old boy from a boarding school in Mussoorie was brought to the hospital in a deceased condition by the Headmaster. Upon receiving this information, the police from Mussoorie police station reached the hospital and inquired with the school staff regarding the child’s death. The school staff informed us that the child was practising swimming in the pool when he suddenly lost consciousness in the water. He was immediately taken to the hospital by the school administration, where doctors declared him dead.”

Founded in 1888, Wynberg-Allen School has 900 students of whom 700 are boarders.