A four-year-old girl drowned during a swimming lesson at a private pool with no lifeguard present.
Young Berra Dizi was spotted floating motionless in the pool at the nursery in the Suleymaniye neighbourhood of Inegol in Bursa Province, Turkey, on August 12.
A nurse at the scene gave the girl first aid before paramedics took her to the Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Education and Research Hospital.
But after a seven-day battle, she tragically died in intensive care.
A probe into the incident found that the pool Berra was swimming was too deep to hold children’s lessons.
Investigators also found that there wasn’t a certified lifeguard on duty at the time and that the lesson’s instructor was not in the pool with the children.
The nursery claimed the child had suffered an epileptic fit while swimming, suggesting it was her condition that killed her – not negligence
But Berra’s mother told investigators that while she had twice suffered from seizures, the girl had been seizure-free for two years and had been taken off medication on her doctor’s recommendation.
Investigators found the nursery’s operator was ‘primarily at fault’, while the swimming teacher was ‘secondarily at fault’.
However, the young girl’s parents were also listed as ‘primarily at fault’, a claim they said was deeply unfair.
Berra’s mother reportedly said that parents at the school were told not to send their children with arm floats that day and believes her daughter would still be alive if safety rules had been followed.
