LAHORE: The Lahore district administration sealed a private water park in Batapur on Monday after a nine-year-old girl allegedly got stuck in a drainage pipe and died due to the alleged negligence of park officials, it emerged on Wednesday.
Batapur police arrested three officials of Sozo Water Park after registering a criminal case against them.
The incident occurred on Monday, when the park administration allegedly began draining a swimming pool without first evacuating the children who were still swimming in it.
Police said the powerful suction created by a high-capacity drainage pump pulled the nine-year-old girl into the pool’s drainage pipe, where she became trapped.
Rescue teams searched for the child for around 40-50 minutes before she was found stuck inside the drainage pipe. She could not be revived.
