A schoolgirl has died two days after being pulled from a hotel pool in Majorca. The Irish girl, seven, was on holiday in the island capital Palma when she was pulled motionless from the water and taken to an intensive care unit.
An investigation was launched after the incident at the four-star HYB Eurocalas Hotel in the east coast resort of Calas de Mallorca. The youngster was taken to hospital “in a critical condition” on Monday afternoon with police clearing a path for her ambulance so she could get there as quickly as possible, reports The Mirror.
A spokeswoman for a regional government-run emergency coordination centre said: “We took a call around 3.40pm yesterday/on Monday to say lifeguards had spotted a young girl lying motionless on the bottom of the pool and dived in to rescue her. They performed CPR on her after pulling her out of the water because she had gone into cardiac arrest.
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“Paramedics continued to try to revive her after reaching the scene and got her breathing again in the back of the ambulance. She was taken to Son Espases Hospital.”
The unnamed girl’s parents were said to be receiving support from counsellors. Earlier this month, Corey Aughey, five, from north Belfast, died in hospital after falling into the swimming pool of the hotel where he was staying with his family in the Majorcan resort of Sa Coma near the Love Island villa.
Last month, a British toddler drowned in a swimming pool accident in Costa Blanca. Freddie Joseph Briggs died in the pool at his parents’ home in the village of Aigues near Benidorm on May 25, leading the local council to declare three days of mourning.
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