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A toddler died after being pulled from a backyard pool just days before Christmas.
Emergency services were rushed to a Moorebank home in Sydney’s southwest shortly after 6.30pm on Tuesday after reports a three-year-old boy was found unconscious in the water.
Paramedics attempted to resuscitate the boy at the scene for some time before he was rushed to Sydney Children’s Hospital, where he later died.
Images from the scene showed ambulances and police vehicles on both sides of the street.
The boy was surrounded by paramedics as he was stretchered out of the house and taken to an ambulance.
Several distraught relatives were seen speaking to officers and paramedics as the boy was rushed to hospital.
A child’s life jacket was seen abandoned near the backyard pool.
Surprised neighbor Valeria said that the boy was in critical condition when he left the house.
A toddler has died after being pulled from a backyard swimming pool in Sydney’s southwest.
The boy was rushed to Sydney Children’s Hospital, where he died.
“We were in the backyard and we could hear a lot of screaming,” he said.
‘I shouted, ‘Is everything okay?’ because they have been partying.
“I was thinking maybe someone threw someone into the pool, but then we heard a lot of screaming.”
Other neighbors also heard the screams coming from the house and ran to help.
“We went there to take a look and apparently a little boy fell into the pool and they were trying to resuscitate him,” Valeria said.
“The next door neighbor came in to try to resuscitate the child while the ambulance arrived.”
New South Wales Police have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the drowning.
Distraught family members were seen speaking to officers and paramedics after the boy was rushed to hospital.
A child’s life jacket was seen near the scene where the tragedy occurred.
The child’s death is not considered suspicious.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
The boy’s death came several hours after a man drowned on a beach at Catherine Hill Bay in the Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales.
Lifeguards and paramedics performed CPR on the 55-year-old man, who was pulled from the water, but were unable to revive him.
Footage from the scene showed ambulances and police cars lined up on both sides of the street as the boy was taken from the house.