An inspection team has examined the swimming pool of a resort in Phan Thiet City, in Vietnam’s south-central Binh Thuan Province, to clarify the cause of death of a Japanese boy who died while bathing in the pool last month.

The examination was conducted by the provincial police and the Institute of Criminal Sciences, under the Ministry of Public Security, at the pool of the Centara Mirage Resort Mui Ne on Monday morning.

More than a month ago, Hanawa Yukiji, an 11-year-old boy from Japan, died in the facility on April 5.

The municipal Procuracy and other agencies concerned were also present in the inspection. 

Hanawa, along with his family, arrived in the resort on the morning of April 5 for a vacation, Huynh Thi Anh Thu, the boy’s Vietnamese mother, said. 

At 10:00 am the same day, the boy and three other children were playing in the part of the pool intended for kids.

After swimming for about 35 minutes, Hanawa was found by his friends drowning in the pool. 

After being brought out of the pool, the boy was found to have suffered suffocation from the water and cardiac arrest, along with many bruises seen on his back and arms.

The family took the boy’s body home and notified the deadly incident to the Consulate General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City.

After the incident, the provincial police asked for an autopsy of the victim.

They also requested the aforementioned institute to conduct a scene examination to clarify the cause of the fatality, a source told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.

In a diplomatic note issued to Ho Chi Minh City Department of External Relations, and the Public Security Department and the People’s Committee of Binh Thuan Province, the Japanese Consulate General requested that appropriate measures be taken to shed light on the cause of death for the victim’s family. 

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