An Asian man had taken his family to the beach when his 20-year-old daughter started to drown and screamed for help. When the men from the rescue team arrived to save her, the father stopped them which led to the young girl’s death.

Deputy Director of Dubai Police’s Search and Rescue Department Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Burqibah said he would never forget this incident. “The father took his wife and kids to the beach for picnic and fun. The kids were swimming in the beach when suddenly, the 20-year-old girl started drowning and screaming for help. Two rescue men were at the beach, and they rushed to help the girl. However, there was one obstacle which prevented them from reaching the girl and helping her. This obstacle was the belief of this man who considered that if these men touched his daughter, then this would dishonor her. It cost him the life of his daughter.”

He continued, “The father was a tall and strong man. He started pulling and preventing the rescue men and got violent with them. He told them that he prefers his daughter being dead than being touched by a strange man.”

“She died unfortunately, at a time when she had a chance to live, especially that the rescue men were so close to pulling her out of the water,” he lamented.

Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Burqibah asserted that the man was arrested by the police for stopping the rescuers from saving his daughter.