Refugee child drowns in Euphrates River

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A 13-year-old child from Syria drowned in the Euphrates River in the Birecik district of the southeastern Urfa province.

A while after he entered the river to swim, the child was caught in the current, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

People around the river called emergency and underwater rescue teams after seeing the child being dragged in the river.

The teams recovered the child's dead body.

Child deaths by drowning

Drowning in the water is one of the leading causes of death for the people aged between 1 and 24, especially in low and middle-income countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)

Such deaths usually occur during daily activities such as having a swim, getting water from rivers for household needs, sea transportation and fishing, says the WHO.

Pınar Abdal, a member of the Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG), a group tracking worker deaths, had told bianet in an interview last year that child deaths in rivers and irrigation canals increase in spring and summer every year.

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