The case was registered at the last Thursday (18), when Helen Nyabuto, 24, a student exchange student in Kenya studying nursing in Canada, entered the pool to swim. She ended up recording her own drowning in live streaming video on social network.
Hellen started the broadcast around 2 p.m., responded to subscribers, and went out to swim in a deeper part of the pool. according canadian portal Radio Canadain the video posted on the young woman’s Facebook, it is possible to hear her cry for help, a few seconds after disappearing from the frame.
After he drowned, the live stream continued until 5 p.m. when another hotel guest found the body in the pool and ended the video. According to the Ontario police, the event was recorded before 5:45 p.m., more than half an hour after Hellen’s body was found in the pool. Rescue procedures were applied but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
To bring the girl’s body back to Kenya, relatives created a virtual cat. In three days they picked up 54 thousand Canadian dollarsenough to transfer the body that was buried in the Weekend.
Procedures are underway by the Canadian police so that Videos of girl’s drowning are removed from social media out of respect for the family.
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