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full screen The boy was taken to Sahlgrenska hospital after the accident, but his life could not be saved. Archive image. Photo: Adam Ihse/TT
The boy in his early teens who was involved in a drowning accident during the Gothia Cup has died, as Göteborgs-Posten first reported.
It was on Monday that the boy, who played in a foreign team in the football tournament, visited a bathhouse in Alingsås. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a drowning incident.
“(He) had been in a coma for several days and efforts to bring him home to the UK were unsuccessful. He has now tragically passed away,” writes the mosque to which the boy belonged on social media.
A representative of the mosque confirms to GP that the boy has died.
Last summer, a 15-year-old boy drowned in the same bathhouse. He also played in a foreign team in the Gothia cup.