After nearly drowning in a hotel pool near the Love Island residence in Majorca, a six-year-old British kid died in hospital.
After being resuscitate at the poolside by emergency personnel, the kid was brought to hospital in a ‘serious’ condition from the four-star hotel in the resort of Sa Coma on Thursday.
The nameless kid, who was said to be from Northern Ireland, died on Sunday afternoon at Son Espases Hospital in Palma, the island’s capital.
The pool tragedy was initially supposed to have occurred on Sunday, however reliable sources stated the boy had been in a hospital intensive care unit for three days before passing away.
Officers from the Civil Guard and local police went to the site, but the National Police of Spain will now be called in to investigate what happened.
A representative for the National Police in Palma stated that more information was still pending and that he couldn’t comment at this time.
A six-year-old kid died at Son Espases Hospital in Palma on Thursday after a near-drowning episode, according to reliable hospital sources.
‘He was admitted to intensive care on Thursday in a severe condition, but regrettably failed to recover and died in hospital on Sunday,’ according to one source.
The child was on vacation with his parents at the hotel, which is not officially named but is a popular family hotel in the east coast resort of Sa Coma, just a short drive from the Love Island villa near Sant Llorenc des Cardassar.
Close to Sant Llorenc des Cardassar, the hotel is around a 20-minute drive from the Love Island residence.
According to unconfirmed local sources, the boy’s parents had been unable to locate him for several minutes before spotting him in the water.
Before he was carried away, emergency responders are said to have revived him after performing CPR on him for over half an hour.
The tragedy follows the death of a British toddler in a swimming pool accident on the Costa Blanca last month.
On May 25, Freddie Joseph Briggs drowned in his parents’ pool in Aigues, near Benidorm, prompting the local council to declare three days of mourning.
Marc Briggs, known to friends as Briggsy and presumed to be from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and his Belfast-born mother Jane Mohan had recently relocated to the Costa Blanca.
At his funeral service, which was held at a church in Belfast where he was christened before being buried in a nearby cemetery, tributes were paid to the 19-month-old boy.
At the service, Father Thomas McGlynn told mourners that the youngster brought joy to those around him and lived his short life ‘to the fullest.’
A routine police investigation was said to be ongoing at the time.
The tragedy follows two others in the area that involved British nationals.
Ingrid Dale, a 67-year-old British expat from Dereham in Norfolk, died on May 9 after being stung by a wasp in a Costa Blanca restaurant.
She reportedly went into anaphylactic shock in front of friends at a bar in Moraira, a coastal town half an hour north of Benidorm.
She died in an ambulance outside the Hill Top Sports Bar & Grill after suffering cardiac arrest and being unable to be transported to the hospital.
Friends and well-wishers expressed their sorrow over widowed Ingrid’s untimely death, which occurred while she was attending a lunch to raise funds for Ukrainian families.
Later that day, a British man drowned while attempting to save his dog in a nearby river that had claimed the lives of three other people in the previous month.
Paul Lebihan, a former Royal Navy sailor from Gateshead, died after getting into trouble in the river at a beauty spot near the Costa Blanca resort of Benidorm.
Friends and family later paid tribute to the 24-year-old keen amateur boxer, launching a GoFundMe campaign to help his family bring Paul’s body home and cover funeral costs, which has already raised around half of its £15,000 goal.
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