The 17 year old student from China, who nearly drowned last Sunday at the Aquatic Centre, has died.
He had just started in Grade 11 at Simonds. The teen had been on a ventilator at the Regional Hospital since being pulled from the swimming pool at the Aquatic Centre and given C-P-R after it appeared he had stopped breathing.
The circumstances of exactly what happened have not been released yet.
His mother and father are expected to be arriving in the city tomorrow from China.
Meantime, City Police are investigating after a 54 year old man was struck by a car yesterday afternoon around 3 at the intersection of Visart Street and Churchill Boulevard in the north end just across from Lansdowne Plaza.
Meantime, City Police are investigating after a 54 year old man was struck by a car yesterday afternoon around 3 at the intersection of Visart Street and Churchill Boulevard in the north end just across from Lansdowne Plaza.
The man was taken to hospital for treatment of his injuries.
