Boy, 14, drowns in Thai swimming pool

Jul 12th, 2009 - The Independent

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A British teenager died at a water park in Thailand after getting sucked into the pool's pump system.

Nathan Clark Griffiths, 14, became trapped in the water park's pumping system after losing his swimming goggles, which had fallen through a grill at of one of the pools at the Pattaya Water Park, 85 miles from Bangkok.

Nathan, from the Isle of Man, told his older brother Rhys, 15, that he was going to look for them and lifted the grill and entered the hole below. That was the last time he was seen alive.

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