A nine-month-old girl has drowned in a swimming pool in Klerksdorp, in the North West.
|||A nine-month-old girl drowned in a swimming pool in Klerksdorp, in the North West, paramedics said on Tuesday.
“The toddler had fallen into the pool and was immersed for a long period of time before she was plucked from the frigid water by family members on Monday,” Netcare 911 spokesman Jeffrey Wicks said.
Wicks said paramedics found her in a critical condition.
A full advanced life support resuscitation was initiated but the girl was declared dead shortly after arrival at the hospital, he said. – Sapa