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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