A little girl was has been rushed to hospital after being found unconscious at a swimming pool in the Algarve.
The youngster, four, was at the holiday resort of Lagos when emergency services found her "in a serious condition" on Tuesday, according to local reports.
The girl, who is believed to be English, was taken to Portimao Hospital.
The pool where the girl was found was at a privately-owned house.
Her condition is not known at this time.
Police and firefighters were not immediately available for comment early this morning.
Last week, an Irish schoolgirl died in hospital two days after being pulled from her Majorcan hotel pool.
The girl, seven, was on holiday in the island capital Palma when she was pulled motionless from the water and rushed to an intensive care unit.
An investigation was launched after the girl was pulled from the water at the four-star HYB Eurocalas Hotel in the east coast resort of Calas de Mallorca.
The youngster was rushed to hospital “in a critical condition” as police cleared a path for her ambulance so she could get there as quickly as possible.
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.
Tributes were paid to the 19-month-old boy at his funeral service at a church in Belfast where he was christened before he was buried at a nearby cemetery.
Father Thomas McGlynn told mourners at the service the youngster brought happiness to those around him and enjoyed his short life “to the very full.”
The child’s dad Marc Briggs, known to pals as Briggsy and thought to be from Mansfield, Notts, and Belfast-born mum Jane Mohan had moved to the Costa Blanca shortly before the tragedy.
On May 9 a British man drowned in a nearby river which had claimed the lives of three other people in the past month as he tried to save his dog.
Former Royal Navy sailor Paul Lebihan, originally from Gateshead, died after getting into difficulties in the river at a beauty spot a short drive from the Costa Blanca resort of Benidorm.
