The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced in a statement early yesterday morning that a woman died in hospital after drowning in a hotel swimming pool in Zape on Monday.
The woman is a 40-year-old mainlander, who went for a dip in the swimming pool with her family on Monday, the statement said.
The PJ statement said that the woman and her family members went to the pool at 4 p.m., the statement said, adding that she was found unconscious in the middle of the pool at 4:40 p.m. after which the hotel staff and other hotel guests helped pull her out of the water, and called the emergency service.
The woman’s heartbeat was restored for a while, but she eventually died.
A statement by the Fire Services Bureau (CB) yesterday identified the hotel where the case occurred as Harbourview Hotel.
Upon preliminary examination of the body, no injuries involving possible criminal offences were found on the surface of the body, the statement noted.
The actual cause of death has yet to be confirmed by forensic examination, according to the statement, which noted that the Judiciary Police have initially classified the case as a dead body found.
