13 year old Ricky Osagie, a Nigerian boy living in Dublin Ireland died after trying to save a girl who was drowning in a lake at their residential complex. Ricky and another girl had gone into the water to save the other girl who was having trouble swimming.
Paramedics arrived shortly after the accident at 6.15pm and all three teenagers were taken from the water. But witnesses claimed Ricky had been under water “for at least 10 minutes” before he was found.
Both girls were brought to Temple Street Children’s Hospital for treatment and are understood to be recovering. Ricky’s condition had been described as “serious” and he remained in intensive care throughout the night before he passed away.