A British toddler has died in hospital after a holiday hotel swimming pool tragedy. The 17-month-old girl had been fighting for her life after being found in the water at the hotel in Puerto Alcudia, Majorca, on Tuesday afternoon.
The child's parents found her floating in the pool before alerting a lifeguard, who performed emergency CPR. Medics and other emergency services were soon on the scene and managed to revive the child, local newspaper Ultima Hora reported.
She was rushed to hospital in the island's capital Palma in admitted to intensive care in a critical condition. However, the girl sadly died on Thursday.
The tragedy was the latest fatal drowning incident reported in the Majorca this summer. A seven-year-old Irish girl died after getting into difficulties in a hotel swimming pool in June.
A six-year-old boy also lost his life after an incident at a hotel in the resort of Sa Coma, also in June. The child was rushed to hospital after being revived at the poolside by emergency responders.
But he later died at Son Espases Hospital in Palma after spending three days in intensive care. So far this summer, more than 20 people have drowned in the Balearic Islands with emergency services called to 47 separate incidents.
Some 30 per cent of these cases have been children under the age of seven, Ultima Hora reports.
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