SRIRACHA, Thailand – At approximately 5:30 PM, the Sriracha Rescue Unit received an emergency call about a young girl whose arm was trapped in a drainage pipe at a swimming pool in the Pornthep Village on November 3. Responding swiftly, rescue teams arrived at the scene equipped with cutting tools to assist in the rescue operation.
At the site, rescuers found the girl with her left arm lodged in the pool’s suction pipe, which draws water into the filtration system. Her father was on hand, comforting her as she cried in fear. The rescue operation proved to be extremely challenging. Rescuers had to drain more than half of the pool’s water before using an electric drill to break the concrete around the pipe and cut the PVC pipe. After two hours of intense effort, they successfully extracted the girl’s arm along with the pipe and then carefully removed the pipe from her arm.
Following the rescue, the girl was transported to a local hospital for medical attention. Witness Praman Sangwirun, 60, recounted how he discovered the child had inserted her arm into the approximately 1.5-inch diameter pipe. He praised the efforts of the rescue personnel, local village chief, and the community members who assisted by scooping water out of the pool, which facilitated the rescue operation.
Authorities suspect that the incident occurred because the suction pipe lacked a cover, allowing the child to inadvertently insert her arm into it, where the suction from the water pump caused her arm to become stuck.
