Fourth child in less than a week drowns in private pool
Friday, July 5, 2013 @ 2:23 PM
A BOY of six has lost his life in a swimming pool on a private residential complex - the fourth child to drown in similar circumstances in three days.
He had gone with his family to spend the day at the villa of some friends on the urbanisation Maset del Pou in Monserrat (Valencia) on Monday when he fell into their pool just after 19.00hrs, say Local Police officers.
The people who were with the child took him to the health centre in Monserrat, where employees called an ambulance staffed with paramedics, but he had already passed away by the time it reached the scene.
He is the fourth child in Spain to drown in private pools since the start of July.
The day before, an eight-year-old boy drowned in the communal swimming pool on his housing development in Cabra de Santo Cristo (Jaén province), and the day after the tragedy in Monserrat, a girl of 17 months old lost her life in a paddling pool in Priego (Córdoba province).
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