A boat carrying 12 people capsized in the Mures River on Sunday evening in the Mures River, Periam port area. Eight people have been found, four more are considered missing. As ISU Timiş reports, the 4-year-old child was pulled out of the water, and the doctors of the ambulance brigade declared him dead. Firefighters from Arad arrived to support their colleagues from Timișoara.

Intervention on the Mures RiverPhoto: AGERPRES

According to ISU Arad, there were 6 adults and 6 children in the overturned boat. 8 of them were saved immediately. It is about 3 children and 3 adults from Arad County and an adult and a child from Timiş County.

According to authorities, a 28-year-old woman and a 4-year-old child were washed ashore on the bank of the Mures River, which belongs to Timis County.

A four-year-old child was in the overturned boat. The team of SAJ medical workers who arrived at the scene tried to resuscitate him, but in the end the baby was declared dead,” ISU Timiş press secretary Elena Megerea told Agerpres.

According to the Timișoara police, 3 adults and 3 children were taken from Mures to the shore belonging to Arad county. Two more adults and two children are nowhere to be found.

The crew of ISU Timiş received a request to intervene on Sunday evening to search and rescue people who capsized with a boat in the port of Periam.

Firefighters from intervention units attended the scene with seven first aid vehicles and command and boats, lighted balloons, a SMURD ambulance, as well as a diving crew from Timisoara Squad 1 and a personal and casualty transport vehicle, as well as two SAJ ambulances help

The Periam Volunteer Emergency Service is stepping in to support.

ISU Timiş intervened with 7 special vehicles for first intervention and command and boats, lighting balls, medical vehicle SMURD, as well as a crew of divers from Detachment 1 Timisoara and a special vehicle for the transport of personal and multiple casualties and 2 SAJ ambulances.

ISU Arad intervened with 4 boats, lighting equipment, SMURD Nădlac, SMURD TIM Arad with a total of 17 people. (sources Agerpres, news.ro)