19-year-old drowns in Lommel swimming pool during mosque Al-Furqan swim night

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A swimmer drowned at the De Soeverein swimming pool in Lommel on Friday evening. The swimming pool was rented out at that moment by the mosque Al-Furqan, an association founded by residents of Lommel with Moroccan roots. One of those present - a Dutch national - was suddenly discovered on the bottom of the swimming pool. The victim died on the spot.

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A 31-year-old man from Eindhoven drowned on Friday evening in the pool of Lommel during the swim event of a Moroccan NGO. Other participants saw him suddenly lying on the bottom of the pool. The medical examiner established a natural death. This afternoon, a gathering has already taken place to pray for the deceased.

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The emergency services went out late on Friday evening for an incident in Lommel's urban swimming pool. The exact circumstances were not yet known at press time, but a drowning person could no longer be resuscitated. How the victim died is unclear.