A five-year-old child died on Tuesday evening in Marignane (Bouches-du-Rhône), while bathing in the Etang de Berre, near Marseille. It was past 7 p.m. when the firefighters alerted the Cross (Regional operational centers for surveillance and rescue at sea) that two children were in difficulty, adrift, on an inflatable buoy blown by the wind off the beach of the I have.
The rescue resources deployed made it possible to recover the first girl, three years old according to the maritime prefecture, and in a state of advanced hypothermia. The second, aged five, was found in cardiopulmonary arrest and could not be revived. With a wind of five knots and a fine sea, the weather did not seem particularly dangerous, although the wind was pushing offshore.