A second year student at the elementary girl school number 41 in Gulail district informed the headmistress that a girl had fallen down into the sewage water tank. The principal alerted Civil Defense who immediately dispatched rescue teams to enter the tank and look for the missing girl.

Spokesman of the Civil Defense in the Makkah region, Lt. Col. Abdullah Al-Amri, the water rescuing teams did not find anything in the tank.

“Until late in the night we pumped out all the water in the tank using special tankers, but we did not find anything. We were then sure that the information was false,” he said.