Two-year-old Pakistani child drowns in bucket of water in Ras Al Khaimah

A two-year-old Pakistani child Abdullah Mohammed Mohammed Ali tragically passed away last Friday at his family’s home in the Sidroh, Ras Al Khaimah’s old town after drowning in a bucket filled with water.

The youngest of four siblings, Abdullah was taken to Saqr Government Hospital in Ras Al Khaimah in the hope of saving his life but he arrived there dead, according to medical sources.

Mohammed Mohammed Ali, the child’s father, told Al Khaleej that his child drowned during Friday prayer time in his home located near the well-known Kuwaiti Street in the heart of Ras Al Khaimah.

The child sneaked into the kitchen of the house, where the bucket of water was, and fell into it to drown inside and breathed his last without his family noticing, while the father was in Friday prayer.

The child’s father explained that Abdullah’s mother used a bucket of water to wash clothes, which the family was always keen to cover, but it seemed that the family forget to cover the bucket this time.

"The family is experiencing a state of grief and sorrow in the UAE and Pakistan following the painful and tragic death of their beloved child without any member of the family being able to save his life," he said.

The grieving father, who had been in the country since 2002 and worked as a barber, said he had five children – a girl and four boys, and the deceased boy was the youngest. The three boys are 15, 12 and 10 years old while the girl is 7 years old, he added.