Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Ambulance
Ambulance Photo: Politie
Crime
Sloterplas
drowning
child drownings
Amsterdam
rescue brigade
beach guard
Amsterdam Nieuw-West
Walter Weg
Monday, July 10, 2017 - 12:10
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Previous calls for Sloterplas beach guard ignored: Amsterdam Rescue Brigade

The Amsterdam Rescue Brigade previously called on Amsterdam district Nieuw-West to put a beach guard at Sloterplas, chairman Walter Weg said to the Telegraaf. A 5-year-old girl drowned in the Sloterplas on Sunday.

According to Weg, safety at the Sloterplas beach has long been a concern, especially when the beach gets busy in warm weather. "We warned about this and submitted a plan for a beach guard at the Sloter beach. That was placed on the back burner, because the district indicated that there was no policy for surveillance on open water", he said to the newspaper.

Emergency services responded to Sloterplas on Sunday afternoon after a 5-year-old girl went missing. Bystanders and first responders immediately launched a search for the girl. She was pulled from the water a short time later. Paramedics tried to resuscitate her, but it was to no avail. The girl was pronounced dead at the hospital. 

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Heavy explosives used to break in to jeweler; two arrests made
  • Higher education needs €1.1-billion boost to meet Dutch standards
  • Fin. Min. wants unemployment benefit cut as permanent job offers fall
  • Over 1.5 million covid vaccines given; New infection see-saw continues
  • Ziggo Dome event experiment happening this weekend
  • Election programs do not address housing shortage enough, experts say

Top Stories

  • Over 1.5 million covid vaccines given; New infection see-saw continues
  • Cabinet: Relaxing Covid rules now “irresponsible” but there’s a “bright spot”
  • Dutch gov't has millions of rapid Covid tests in storage: report
  • Fewer deaths than expected for first time in six months; vaccination possible cause
  • Amsterdam man convicted in sex club slayings shot dead in front of daughter, 7
  • 4,161 new coronavirus infections brings average down 3 percent

© 2012-2021 NLTimes.nl, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact