15-year-old drowns in river

• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Published date: 05 April 2021
• Date: 05 April 2021

Medical teams from Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah were called to the scene and resuscitated the boy after he fell into the Prat River. He was transported via helicopter to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem in critical condition,

At the hospital, the boy was declared dead.

MDA paramedic Elon Lubiner said: "We reached the stream, went into the water and searched for the boy for a few minutes. Once we located him, we removed him from the water when he was unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing after spending long minutes underwater."

"We immediately started...