A young Asian woman drowned after her father allegedly prevented Dubai lifeguards from coming to the rescue because that would "dishonour" her, Emirati news media reported on Monday.
Dubai police arrested the unnamed man.
The incident, which was recounted in a local media story interviewing
lifeguards about their strangest strange experiences, is believed to
have taken place in 1996.
When two
lifeguards tried to help the drowning 20-year-old, her father "started
pulling and preventing the rescue men and got violent with them", it
reported.
"He told them that he
prefers his daughter being dead than being touched by a strange man,"
said Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Burqibah, deputy director of Dubai
police's search and rescue department.
The Asian man "considered that if these men touched his daughter, then
this would dishonour her. It cost him the life of his daughter,"
Burqibah said, quoted by the website. Dubai police later arrested the father for having blocked rescue teams from doing their job and saving his daughter's life.
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