First Drowning Incident After Opening This Summer at Haeundae... One Daegu Middle School Student Dead, One Missing

Vacationers cooling off from the heat at Haeundae Beach at night.
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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The first drowning accident since the opening of the summer vacation season occurred at Haeundae Beach in Busan this year.

According to the Busan Police Agency and the Coast Guard on the 25th, three middle school students who came from Daegu to visit were playing in the water at Haeundae Beach early that morning, during which one died and one went missing.

At around 4:19 a.m. that day, while three middle school students were playing in the water in front of Tower No. 7 at Haeundae Beach, two went missing.

One of the three managed to get out of the water on their own and reported the incident to 119 through a passerby.

They had come from Daegu to Busan on the 23rd and were vacationing while staying at a hotel in Haeundae. They started playing in the water at 2:20 a.m. and after about two hours, all three were swept away by waves.

Student A (3rd year middle school) and Student B (2nd year middle school) were carried beyond the buoy installed 50 meters out to sea, while Student C (3rd year middle school) held onto the buoy and managed to get out of the water.

The Coast Guard and fire department water rescue teams, who began searching for the missing persons, found one of them around 5:25 a.m., but the person was already deceased.

The rescue team has deployed divers and is conducting search operations using drones to find the remaining missing person.

A police official stated that it appears the three middle school students from Daegu were playing in the water at Haeundae Beach at night when the accident occurred.

The time they were playing in the water was during the prohibited swimming hours, and it is known that there were no separate safety personnel nearby at that time.

The police are investigating the exact circumstances of the accident along with the ongoing search operations.

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