Rabat-a heartbreaking tragedy hit the rural community of El Aouamra in the province of Larache in Morocco on Wednesday evening when a three-year-old child died after he was in an unsecured fountain near his house.
According to local media the tragedy happened When the child briefly escaped his mother’s supervision.
The toddler wandered to an unknown water tank just meter from home before it fell into it.
The drowning occurred without someone immediately noticing the child’s absence. When concerned family members, what had happened minutes later, discovered it was too late.
Rescue services and the Royal Gendarmerie quickly arrived at the scene. Firefighters recovered the child’s lifeless body from the water.
According to reports, the authorities have initiated an investigation to determine the exact circumstances of the tragedy and to determine potential responsibility.
This incident creates the concerns about the spread of fountains, retention basins and water tanks in rural areas Morocco.
Without adequate security measures, these installations represent a fatal danger, especially for small children. Similar cases occur annually, especially in the summer months in which young people want to cool off or play around these water sources.
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Citizens often speak against the lack of strict regulations for securing private water installations in rural environments and the lack of effective sensitization campaigns for families.
The tragedy of El Aouamra urgently urgently extends measures by the authorities, local communities and civil society to prevent these avoidable accidents and to protect the most endangered life.
The incident signals a persistent security problem in rural communities in which water storage facilities remain dangerous for strange children. It is a strong memory of the urgent need for standardized protective measures for all water installations.
This tragedy remembers something happened With the five-year-old Rayan, whose tragic death in a narrow fountain in the Tamarot community near Chefchaouen caught the hearts of people around the world in 2022.
