A British boy drowned while in Sweden to play the Gothia cup.
He had a wound on his head.
– We don’t know exactly what happened, but we need to clarify that, says prosecutor Carolyn Westeröd Gothenburg Post.
The British boy – who was in his early teens – drowned when he and his teammates visited a bathhouse in Alingsås.
The boy was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and was in a coma for several days, but his life could not be saved.
“He had been in a coma for several days and attempts to bring him home to the UK were unsuccessful. He has now tragically passed away,” wrote the mosque the boy belonged to on social media.
Head injury
The case has been under investigation, the alarm was initially about cardiac arrest, but now it has been established that drowning was behind the boy’s death.
They also tell about a new detail in the case.
– He also had an injury to the head. We don’t know exactly what happened, but we need to clarify that, says prosecutor Carolyn Westeröd, who leads the investigation, to Göteborgs-Posten.
Do not suspect crime
The prosecutor further tells the GP that it is a wound, and that the boy’s teammates, who traveled back to the UK, need to be heard.
However, one should not suspect that the injury to the boy’s head caused his death.
– No, you don’t do that. It is likely that he was hit in some way, maybe blacked out and then simply drowned, says prosecutor Carolyn Westeröd, who adds that there is no reason to believe that another person was behind the blow.
Last summer, a 15-year-old boy drowned in the same bathhouse. He also played in a foreign team in the Gothia cup.