{"id":5828,"date":"2026-06-24T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/water-tank-collapse-injures-two-eight-year-olds-in-potok-wielki-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:00:33","slug":"water-tank-collapse-injures-two-eight-year-olds-in-potok-wielki-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/water-tank-collapse-injures-two-eight-year-olds-in-potok-wielki-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Tank Collapse Injures Two Eight-Year-Olds in Potok Wielki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two eight-year-old boys were hospitalized in Lublin after a water container tipped over and crushed them during play on a private property in the Potok Wielki municipality on Tuesday evening.  <\/p>\n<h4>Details of the Incident<\/h4>\n<p>The Jan\u00f3w Lubelski County Police received a report regarding the accident shortly after 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. According to authorities, the two children were playing in a backyard when a &#8220;Mauser&#8221; style water tank overturned and trapped them underneath.<\/p>\n<h4>Rescue and Medical Response<\/h4>\n<p>One boy managed to free himself, while the second child was rescued by his mother and grandmother. Both boys sustained injuries and were subsequently transported to a hospital in Lublin.<\/p>\n<h4>Ongoing Investigation and Safety Warnings<\/h4>\n<p>While local media outlet RMF FM reports that police have not disclosed the medical status of the children, authorities are using the incident to issue a warning to parents. Police spokesperson Faustyna \u0141azur urged adults to educate children on the dangers posed by yard equipment, machinery, and water storage containers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two eight-year-old boys were hospitalized in Lublin after a water container tipped over and crushed them during play on a private property in the Potok Wielki municipality on Tuesday evening. Details of the Incident The Jan\u00f3w Lubelski County Police received a report regarding the accident shortly after 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. According to authorities, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}