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A boy is fighting for his life in hospital after being found unconscious in a backyard pool last night.
The three-year-old boy was pulled from the pool of a home in Moorebank, in Sydney’s southwest, shortly after 6.30pm on Tuesday.
Those at the scene performed CPR on the boy until emergency services arrived shortly afterwards and rushed him to Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital in Randwick.
New South Wales Police confirmed the boy remains in a critical condition today.
“Police attached to Liverpool City Police Area Command established a crime scene and began investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident,” read a statement from New South Wales Police.
Several distraught family members were seen speaking to officers and paramedics as the boy was placed on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance.
A child’s life jacket was seen abandoned near the backyard pool.
A toddler is fighting for his life after being pulled from a backyard pool in Sydney’s southwest on Tuesday night (pictured, paramedics at the scene)
Paramedics took the three-year-old boy to a children’s hospital in Randwick, where he remains in a critical condition.
“We were in the backyard and we could hear a lot of screaming,” said neighbor Valeria.
‘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.”
The near-drowning occurred 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.