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Date Published: 20/06/2022
ARCHIVED - Two children saved from drowning within 10 minutes of each other in Murcia and Mazarron
The near-drownings happened at a pool in Murcia and Playa Bahía Grande in Puerto de Mazarrón
Tragedy was narrowly avoided in the Region of Murcia at the weekend when a three-year-old and another child, 8, were hospitalised after being saved from drowning in separate incidents.
According to the 112 Emergency Coordination Centre, both youngsters suffered 'immersion syndrome' and required hospital treatment.
The first incident happened at 7.46pm on Sunday June 19 when a three-year-old girl almost drowned at a swimming pool on Torre Guil urbanisation in Murcia. Paramedics stabilised the little girl at the scene before she was taken to the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital.
Ten minutes later, 112 received several calls for assistance after an eight-year-old boy almost drowned at Bahía Grande beach in Puerto de Mazarrón. Two ambulance crews were sent to the scene where the little boy was initially tended to before being transferred to Santa Lucía Hospital in Cartagena.
Earlier this month, a 64-year-old man died after suffering immersion syndrome just in front of Bahía Chica hotel in Mazarrón. Several other bathers on the beach managed to pull the man out of the water, already unconscious, and tried to revive him but to no avail.
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