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Rescue team manage to resuscitate man who drowned at Corniche beach

The 24-year-old man’s heart stopped for seven minutes before the team revived him using the Emergency Heart-Shock Device.

  • By Dina Aboul Hosn, Staff Reporter
  • Published: 20:25 May 11, 2008
  • Gulf News

Abu Dhabi : A rescue team from Abu Dhabi Police managed to revive an Indian man after he drowned off the Abu Dhabi Corniche.

The 24-year-old man's heart stopped for seven minutes before the team revived him using the Emergency Heart-Shock Device.

The Abu Dhabi Police Emergency and Public Safety Department received a report from the central operations room that the man drowned while he was swimming on Saturday.

A team from the department rushed to the scene and resuscitated the man's heart before taking him to Shaikh Khalifa Hospital in Abu Dhabi

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