An unnamed teenage boy, 14,
jumped into the Naviglio Canal from a bridge in the town of Cuggiono,
west of Milan, Italy, at 4:53pm on 24 April, The Local reports.
When
the teenager failed to come up to the surface, the friends he was with
frantically searched the murky water, and called emergency services when
they couldn’t find him.
A team of divers was
dispatched and they finally pulled the 14-year-old’s body from the water
at 5:32pm, 42 minutes after he had gone under.
He
was rushed by helicopter to Milan’s San Raffaele hospital, where
doctors treated him using Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, a
procedure whereby an artificial lung outside the body is used to pump
oxygenated blood through it.
