How a 3-year-old Dubai boy trapped in a swimming pool was rescued
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00:00His hand was stuck in the pipe.
00:02And when his hand was stuck in the pipe, I tried a lot to pull it.
00:05Extensive rescue operation at this residence by Dubai police
00:08as a three and a half year old boy stuck his arm in the swimming pool pipe for several hours.
00:14I'm Ali from Gulf News and we are here revisiting the heroic action of Dubai police to rescue the boy.
00:21What's happened to your arm?
00:22Show me your arm.
00:23Show me.
00:24Oh, it's hurt.
00:25It's hurt?
00:27Okay.
00:28What's happened?
00:29I couldn't get my arm in.
00:31You wasn't swimming?
00:33My foot.
00:34Swimming pool playing?
00:35Yes.
00:36He jumped on the cover of the drainage.
00:38Oh, the drainage.
00:39Yeah, yeah, drain, drain.
00:40He jumped there on that cover and suddenly he fell down.
00:43When he fell down, he told me, Mama, help.
00:46And I went there.
00:47I thought he won't get up.
00:49He's not able to get up.
00:50What's that?
00:51I will help him.
00:52But I found his hand was stuck.
00:53No, what's that?
00:54Okay.
00:55Stuck in the pipe.
00:56I tried a lot to pull it, but I could not do it.
01:00Then there were some people around.
01:02I told them, help me, please.
01:04So they pulled him out on his arm.
01:07But again, nothing happened.
01:09Okay.
01:10And then that people, they called the police.
01:13He was crying continuously.
01:14He was scared in the pool.
01:15He was himself crying also.
01:17I was very scared.
01:18I was very worried.
01:19This is the worst day of my life.
01:22I did not experience such experience before.
01:25When the police came, and then they calmed us down,
01:27they calmed me down, and they said nothing to worry about.
01:30They will rescue him.
01:32In this place, the three-and-a-half-year-old boy was playing.
01:36This is the pipe of the drain.
01:38And he put his arm in the pipe, and it was sucked.
01:40He was trapped here for about two hours.
01:44You can see the pipe is equal to his arm.
01:48So he was stuck until here.
01:50And he stayed here for a couple of hours until he was rescued.
01:53He wasn't injured.
01:54It's only minor scratches on his arm.
01:56There is no break in the bone and nothing.
01:58That shows the efficiency of Dubai police work.
02:01It's an amazing work, especially from police and from the rescue team
02:05because they rescued him.
02:06They continuously worked for two hours.
02:08It's not a joke, continuously working for two hours
02:10and rescuing child without damaging his arm.
02:13Yeah, I'm thankful.
02:15I'm thankful to him.
02:16They do amazing work.
02:18I was sitting on the border of the swimming pool.
02:21I want to convey to all the parents, don't sit like that
02:24because I saw on the swimming pool, so many parents are just watching their children.
02:28Only watching their children.
02:29They do not know what they are doing inside the swimming pool.
02:32Like me, I was continuously observing my child.
02:35Continuously I was seeing him.
02:36I was continuously supervising him.
02:38But still this incident happened.
02:40Why? Because I was not in the pool.
02:41If I was in the pool, when he slipped, I had to drag his arm at that time.
02:45I'm thanking Almighty that he saved his life.
02:47But his arm, he's a three-and-a-half-year-old kid.
02:52It could damage his arm.
02:54So I'm requesting all the parents, join in the swimming pool, not watch them.
02:58The quick response by Dubai police helped to rescue the child in a record time.
03:03Dubai police advise parents to look after their children
03:07and do not leave them unattended, even for a few seconds,
03:11as one second can make the difference in saving lives.
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