A British toddler has reportedly drowned in a swimming pool in Costa Blanca, Spain, despite efforts by a neighbour to save his life. The 19-month-old boy was pulled out of the water unconscious on Wednesday evening (May 25).
Paramedics attended to the boy after an air ambulance arrived at the private pool in Aigues, southwest of Benidorm, as a neighbour tried to save the boy's life, Spanish newspaper El Mundo reports. However efforts to revive him failed and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A spokesperson for a regional government emergency response coordination centre said: "At 6.15pm yesterday we were informed a little boy had been pulled out of a private swimming pool in Aigues. We mobilised an air ambulance and a basic life support ambulance. A neighbour performed resuscitation techniques until the medical response teams arrived."
