A 6-year-old girl dies after falling from swing in a playground in Villongo, in the province of Bergamo. The little girl, Ritej Lahmar, was hit on the head by the car seat while she was still on the ground. An impact that would have seriously injured her, to the point of requiring the intervention of the 118 medical personnel, who attempted to resuscitate her on the spot. Despite the intervention of the helicopter rescue, the little girl died on the way to the hospital.
The swing accident
The tragic accident occurred in Monday evening 2nd Septemberwhen the little girl, daughter of a Moroccan couple, was in the “Don Abele Agostinelli” park in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, in the Villongo di San Filastro district, in the company of her mother and a group of playmates.
Around 9pm, the little girl fell from the swing while she was swinging, coming hit hard on the head from the still swinging seat.
The area of the municipality of Villongo, in the province of Bergamo, where the little girl died after being hit by the swing
The rescues
Upon receiving the alarm, an ambulance from the Croce Blu del Basso Sebino and the medical car from Sarnico intervened on the spot. For several minutes the 118 operators attempted to revive the child without success, transferring her in serious conditions with thehelicopter rescue to Pope John XXIII of Bergamo.
But little Ritej is died on the way to the hospitalaround 11pm, and unfortunately doctors could not do anything to save her life.
The little girl who died in Villongo
The little girl lived in the neighboring town of Credaro, together with her father Nabil, a warehouse worker, her mother Fatima, a housewife, two older brothers and a younger sister. In October she would have turned 7 and was supposed to start school. second grade.
“She was a happy, strong and courageous little girl, she was the light of the family” were the words of a cousin, at the site of the tragedy.
Also at the scene of the accident were the mayor of Villongo, Francesco Micheli, along with some councilors, as well as the Carabinieri of Sarnico, working to reconstruct the dynamics of the accident and trace any profiles of responsibility.
Source: notizie.virgilio.it