A recent pool holiday was turned into a tragic disaster after a 12-year-old girl got stuck in a drain at Oasis Aquatic Park in Isla de Maipo, located south of Santiago, Chile. The victim, who was identified as Millaray, miraculously survived the 8-minute underwater disaster after she was sucked into a pool drain.

Based on the reports, the appalling disaster transpired when park attendants reportedly started to drain the pool while the excursionists were still in the water. And the powerful suction pulled the girl underwater and held her down. According to Daily Mail, it took several minutes before anyone noticed that Millaray was actually missing. And when the lifeguards discovered she was stuck in the drain, she had been underwater for some five to eight minutes.

By the time the lifeguards pulled her out, she was unconscious and her lung were filled with water. Fortunately, she is now stable and out of danger, as her mother revealed to the local TV station. The medics have also rejected the possibility of neurological damage, which was their main concern when she arrived on the intensive care ward.

Millaray's parents, however, are contemplating to report the Oasis Aquatic Park for negligence and the lack of proper safety measures, Transit Story revealed.  

"What I want is justice, because this could happen again," the mother of the victim said. "I think it was negligence on their part for opening the drain when people were still inside the pool."

Other swimmers were also completely unaware of what happened while the girl spent several agonizing minutes underwater, Daily Mirror noted. Meanwhile, the Chilean authorities are currently investigating the matter to determine the responsibility of the park administrators in the incident.

In other news, a 20-meter (65-foot) blue whale was rescued after it was stranded on a beach in northern Chile. The stranded whale was discovered by fishing company workers, who promptly informed the local officials, on El Colorado beach near Iquique, located about 1,850 kilometers (1,150 miles) north of Santiago. Fox News Latino has learned from a military spokesperson on Tuesday that the whale was towed back to deep waters in a rescue operation coordinated by the navy.

Furthermore, the three-hour rescue operation to save the marine mammal involved a couple of tug boats, beachgoers, surfers, residents and members of the militarized Carabineros police force. The navy also set out two vessels to help return the whale to open waters. Following the extensive rescue process made possible with the assistance of the public, the navy announced that the whale was towed out to sea and released five miles offshore.