A 12-year-old drowned in a river after she went to the river with her two friends.

Shukri Yahye Abdi was pulled from the River Irwell near Bury town center last year.

An inquest has been held into her death where one of her friends told she joked she was ‘going to kill her if she didn’t get in the water.’

On June 27, Shukri and her two friends went to the river last year. Shukri drowned in the river as she didn’t know how to swim.

Her friend’s parents told at the inquest that three or four days after Shukri’s death, their daughter told them: ‘There is something I need to tell you.’

Her parents said: “She said when they were walking towards the river she said to Shukri ‘If you don’t get in the water I’m going to kill you’ in a laughing and joking manner’.”

The friend said she didn’t know Shukri would get in the water.

She wanted someone else to come in the water with her.

The friend now feels she has done something really bad and is responsible for her death.

Her parents said: “I said we all say things we don’t mean, but said I would have to report it to the police. She was happy for me to report it.”

The friend is disturbed as she knows it wasn’t the right comment to make.

But, she is now telling the truth to let everyone know that it wasn’t meant in the way she said it.

“She told me she would show Shukri how to swim, she said something along the lines of ‘I told her I would save her if she couldn’t swim’”, the parents told at the inquest.

The friend told that Shukri then got into the water and drowned.

Friends William Keenan and Steven Duckworth were fishing about 400-500 yards away when two girls came running to them and told them about Shukri.

The two friends tried to save her but unfortunately, Shukri couldn’t be saved.

 

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