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Civil Service Club accepts 75% liability for near-drowning that left boy wheelchair-bound and blind
Boy, 11, left blind, reliant on wheelchair and nursing care after pool tragedy in 2015
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A January 2016 photo of Syahriz Matin Abdul Halim and his father Abdul Halim Abdul Aziz. The boy was found unresponsive and floating face down at the deeper end of the pool at the Civil Service Club in Bukit Batok in 2015.
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The Civil Service Club has accepted 75 per cent liability for a swimming pool tragedy at its Bukit Batok location that left a then seven-year-old boy blind, having to use a wheelchair and totally dependent on nursing care today.
The family of Syahriz Matin Abdul Halim alleged, among other things, that the lifeguard was absent from his post at the pool when the boy, who is now 11 years old, found himself in difficulties.
