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Date Published: 23/06/2022

ARCHIVED - Irish girl, 7, dies after being pulled from Mallorca swimming pool

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The child died in hospital two days after being pulled from the hotel pool in Mallorca

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Irish girl, 7, dies after being pulled from Mallorca swimming pool

A seven-year-old girl has tragically died two days after being rescued from a hotel swimming pool in Mallorca, Spain. The child, believed to be Irish, was reportedly staying at the four-star HYB Eurocalas Hotel in the resort of Calas de Mallorca when the heartbreaking accident occurred.

According to official sources, the girl was rushed to the intensive care unit at Son Espases Hospital in Palma “in a critical condition” with a police escort, where she sadly lost her battle for life on Wednesday June 22.

A spokesperson for the emergency coordination centre said: “We took a call around 3.40pm 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. 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.”

Just a week ago, a young boy drowned in Alicante after getting his hand stuck in a pool suction drain and last month, a six-year-old Belfast child died in hospital after falling into a pool in the Mallorca resort of Sa Coma.

Also in May, British toddler Freddie Joseph Briggs drowned in a private pool at his family’s Benidorm villa.

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