FAMILY of the Feltham schoolgirl who drowned this week have spoke of their shock and sadness as they come to terms with the tragedy.

Amid Kumar, brother of 15-year-old Kajil Devi, told the Chronicle how he believes the A* pupil died trying to save her younger cousin's life.

Amid, 17 said: "My 10-year-old cousin was screaming in the boat as it was floating away. Kajil tried to grab on to the rope but it was too deep for her -she can't swim – the water was at eye level and she just slipped under the water."

Amid, a Kingston College Student told how the lifeguard wouldn't listen to his cousin and asked the panicked family to search the shore before he entered the water.

"It's a big beach and there was only one lifeguard from what they could see," said Amid. "A member of the public had to pull her from the water."

The Feltham Community School pupil acted as a translator to her Afghani parents Sunil Duvar and Mini Devi, and helped to take care of her partially blind father.

Amid said: "The family are still in shock, my mum fainted yesterday, she was so close to them, where ever they went she was there helping. She was so generous and caring, she used to even help raise her friends' grades by tutoring them. God always takes the good people."

Kajil, an A* pupil, had ambitions to be a lawyer and even did work experience in central London solicitors firms.

Kajil was on a day trip to the Cotswold Water Park beach on Sunday when the accident happened. She was enjoying a barbeque with her parents, her 20-year-old sister Sumit, two uncles and aunties and three cousins.

Since Kajil's death on Monday, it has been revealed that on June 11, the parish council where the water park is based, expressed concerns over the health and safety standards at the tourist attraction,

Murial Watkins, Clerk of Somerford keynes Parish Council, wrote to the District Council's health and safety officer saying: "In particular the concerns were about insufficient first-aid officers and insufficient life-guards on the beach.

Adrian Davey, operations director at Cotswold Country Park and Beach , has however slammed these claims, saying the tragedy could not have been handled better.

He said: "All of the staff at the beach were very quick to act. While the closest lifeguard resuscitated the girl, the other three lifeguards resumed their duties monitoring the beach, bathing and boating areas, ensuring the safety of other visitors, as they are trained to do."