Shafaq News/ The Deputy Commissioner (DC) of al-Qaim sub-district, Ahmed Jedyan, said that nearly a dozen of drowning accidents happen in the Euphrates every summer, calling for dispatching river police detachments to the river banks.
Jedyan told Shafaq News Agency in a statement today, Friday, "nearly ten drowning incidents in the Euphrates, from its entrance to the Iraqi territory to al-Qaim, every summer."
Jedyan attributed the high number of those incidents to the lack of river police detachments in the Qaim sub-district.
"The lack of qualified pools and poor power supply prompt the young men in the sub-district to swim in the river, which leads to more incidents."
"The sub-district formed a team of five volunteers to maintain the safety of the citizens. They were trained to dive and recover drowned people."
Al-Qaim's Deputy Commissioner demanded, "either regularizing the volunteers or dispatching river police detachments to the sub-district."
