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In Odessa, a child on an inflatable mattress was carried a kilometer from the coast

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To help the teenager, at the same time with the rescuers, local residents went on a motor boat

Local residents saw a teenager a kilometer from the beach from the window of the fifth floor of the house and called rescuers.

In the Odessa region, rescuers returned a teenager, who was carried on an inflatable mattress a kilometer from the estuary shore. This was reported to reporters in the press service of the Main Directorate of the State Emergencies Service in the Odessa region

The incident took place in the city of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, the water area of ​​the Dnestrovsky estuary.

“At 16.23 the rescue service received a message that the child on an inflatable mattress was being carried away from the shore by the wind,” the State Emergency Service said.

They clarified that the message came from local residents, who, being in their apartment (on the fifth floor of the house), saw from the window a mattress and a child far from the shore.

Rescuers promptly arrived at the scene, on a rubber boat they went into the estuary and at a distance of 1 km from the coast they found a boy, born in 2006. The press service added that the mattress was at some distance from the boy, who did not drown, thanks to the inflatable pillow, which he held on.

At the same time with the rescuers, local residents went to the aid of the victim in a motor boat.

It was established that the teenager came to the Odessa region from Kiev on vacation, to his grandmother. I came to the bank of the estuary with two comrades. When the children were swimming, the wind began to blow the mattress to the middle of the estuary, and the victim wanted to pull it ashore.

As noted, the teenager did not need the help of doctors.

Earlier it was reported that on the beach in Odessa, people were resting next to the body of a drowned man… The rescuer took the body of the deceased man out of the water at about eight in the morning, and took him away closer to noon.

Before that, it was reported that on Arcadia beach drowned 51-year-old man, who before that, according to witnesses, had signs of alcohol intoxication.

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