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28 March 2024

Man, son fall to death in manhole in Saudi

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A Saudi father died while trying to rescue his five-year-old son who fell into a manhole as the family walked out of a shopping mall in the Gulf kingdom.

The man, his wife and son had just left the mall in the Western Red Sea port of Jeddah and were walking towards their car when the child slipped and plunged into the uncovered pit, Sabq Arabic language daily said.

The panicking father quickly jumped after him but both did not emerge out of the hole amidst screams by the man’s wife.

A police patrol which happened to be passing in that area stopped and its two cops jumped into the pit and plucked out the two.

Sabq said the boy was already dead while the father was rushed to hospital, where he died later. It quoted doctors as saying the man had inhaled toxic substances in the pit and said police opened an investigation on how that pit was left uncovered.