A tourist reportedly died Monday after taking place a water slide and hitting his head on the concrete floor of a hotel pool in southwest Turkey.
Ali Cilga, 65, was allegedly cautioned not to slip head first at an unidentified five-star resort in Manavgat within the Antalya Province, in line with local media reports.
The June 26 incident was captured on video footage that showed oblivious tourists continuing to swim without noticing Cilga.
A person, which The Mirror reported can have been a lifeguard, eventually rushed to the water and pulled Cilga out before performing CPR.
He was transported to a close-by hospital before dying Monday.
He was reportedly on the hotel celebrating Eid al-Adha, one among the largest holidays within the Islamic calendar.
An investigation is underway, reports The Mirror, with the Manavgat Public Prosecution ordering an autopsy on the Antalya Forensic Medicine Institute.
The tragedy unfolded only days before a 5-year-old boy was injured riding a water slide in Georgia as onlookers watched in horror Tuesday.
In response to Fox News Digital, the boy was in a double tube on the Lake Winnepesaukah amusement park when he fell 15 to twenty feet from the slide.
Parkgoers claimed they witnessed the kid “fly out” of the slide as whistles blared, seemingly the park’s protocol when an emergency or injury occurs.
The boy was taken to the Children’s Hospital at Erlanger in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Water slide injuries look like quite common, though there’s no agency that tracks them.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has estimated that greater than 4,200 individuals are taken to emergency rooms annually for scrapes, concussions, broken limbs, spinal injuries and other wounds suffered on public waterslides.
