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Saint-Petersburg Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation into a crime under paragraph “c” of part 2 of article 238 of the RF Penal Code (services not meeting safety requirements) after a boy born in 2009 was taken to hospital in the afternoon of 20 May 2014 from water part of Pribaltiyskaya Hotel (Waterville).

According to investigators, about 5 PM, 20 May 2014, the child was in the water park together with his parents. After a 4-year-old took off a lifejacket and gave it to his parents, they put it on the other child. At that moment the boy, who was heading for the exit from the pool, went back and dived. The child’s father pulled him out of water immediately, the safeguards of the facility administered first medical aid and restored his breathing, after which the child was taken to hospital. At present he is in hospital in satisfying condition, his life out of danger.

During the probe investigators are going to take every measure to find out all the circumstances of the incident and reasons and conditions contributing to the crime.

The progress of the investigation is under special control of the senior officials of Saint-Petersburg Main Investigations Directorate.