UMM AL QUWAIN // Police investigations are under way after a 5-year-old Indian girl drowned while swimming with her mother on Thursday in the Liwara area of Umm Al Quwain.
A source at UAQ Police said the operations room received an emergency call from an Indian man reporting that his wife and daughter had got into trouble in the water.
Ambulances were immediately dispatched to the scene and the mother and child were taken out of the water and transferred to hospital. However, the child was already dead, while the mother is still receiving treatment in hospital.
The source said an investigation is under way and he urged the public to avoid swimming at night or in turbulent sea conditions.
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