A father and grandfather died this Sunday while trying to save a child who fell into the swimming pool of a Gold Coast resort apartment in Queensland, Australia, according to a report. Daily mail.
According to the newspaper, the child’s mother, who could not swim, jumped into the pool after her daughter, prompting father Dharmveer Singh, 38, and grandfather Gurjinder Singh, 65, to jump into the pool. .
The men were pulled from the water by a Queensland medical team who tried to resuscitate the victims before emergency services arrived, but two suffered cardiopulmonary arrest and did not offer resistance.
The child was not injured and the mother was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
According to the same source, Mitchell Ware of the ambulance service says the incident “is an extremely emotional scene” as “not one family member has died, but two,” he adds.
The pool is on the top floor of an apartment building and was being used by other families at the time of the tragedy.