15-year-old Wu Jintang was on a cultural exchange trip in Singapore with 26 other students and two trainers from the Shaolin Wushu Wenhu School, when he drowned in a Orchard hotel swimming pool in February.
According to Channel NewsAsia, investigation officer Senior Staff Sergeant Wong Yasong told the court that the students were to stay in their rooms at the Orchard Parade Hotel at night after a briefing by trainers on the next day's itinerary.
However, Wu and several other students sneaked out of their room sometime after 9pm to go for a dip in the swimming pool on the sixth floor of the hotel. CCTV footage showed most of the students standing in the shallow end of the pool.
Despite not knowing how to swim, Wu jumped into the deepest part of the pool which was 3 metres-deep, and never surfaced again.
He was unconscious when a fellow student brought him up from the pool bed, and hotel staff performed CPR on him while waiting for paramedics, but were unsuccessful in reviving him.
Paramedics arrived later on around 10.20pm and administered the use of an automated external defibrillator. Wu was pronounced dead at 11.10pm after he was sent to the KK Women's and Children's Hospital with no pulse, zero respiratory rate and blood pressure. A post-mortem confirmed no foul play.
Following the incident, the hotel has placed a lifeguard on duty at the pool from 7am to 10pm, with a security guard taking over after.
Photo: HarshLight via Flickr
15-year-old Wu Jintang was on a cultural exchange trip in Singapore with 26 other students and two trainers from the Shaolin Wushu Wenhu School, when he drowned in a Orchard hotel swimming pool in February.
According to Channel NewsAsia, investigation officer Senior Staff Sergeant Wong Yasong told the court that the students were to stay in their rooms at the Orchard Parade Hotel at night after a briefing by trainers on the next day's itinerary.
However, Wu and several other students sneaked out of their room sometime after 9pm to go for a dip in the swimming pool on the sixth floor of the hotel. CCTV footage showed most of the students standing in the shallow end of the pool.
Despite not knowing how to swim, Wu jumped into the deepest part of the pool which was 3 metres-deep, and never surfaced again.
He was unconscious when a fellow student brought him up from the pool bed, and hotel staff performed CPR on him while waiting for paramedics, but were unsuccessful in reviving him.
Paramedics arrived later on around 10.20pm and administered the use of an automated external defibrillator. Wu was pronounced dead at 11.10pm after he was sent to the KK Women's and Children's Hospital with no pulse, zero respiratory rate and blood pressure. A post-mortem confirmed no foul play.
Following the incident, the hotel has placed a lifeguard on duty at the pool from 7am to 10pm, with a security guard taking over after.
Photo: HarshLight via Flickr