Two days after being rescued from a Majorcan hotel pool and brought back to life before being sent to a critical care unit, a seven-year-old Irish girl passed away at a hospital.
She lost her battle for life today afternoon, according to sources at Son Espases Hospital in Palma, the island’s capital.
The event that occurred on Monday at the four-star HYB Eurocalas Hotel in the Calas de Mallorca resort is still under normal police investigation.
On Monday afternoon, authorities cleared a passage for the child’s ambulance to travel as swiftly as possible to the hospital, where she was taken in “a severe condition.”
Two days after being rescued from her Majorcan hotel pool, a seven-year-old Irish girl passed away in the hospital.
‘We had a phone about 3.40pm yesterday/on Monday to say lifeguards had seen a little girl laying lifeless on the bottom of the pool and dove in to rescue her,’ a spokesperson for a regional government-run emergency coordination center had said yesterday.
‘They performed CPR on her after pulling her out of the water because she had gone into cardiac arrest.
‘Paramedics continued to try to revive her after reaching the scene and got her breathing again in the back of the ambulance.
‘She was taken to Son Espases Hospital.’
Six-year-old Corey Aughey from north Belfast passed away in the hospital on June 5 after getting into the hotel pool while vacationing with his family in the Majorcan town of Sa Coma close to the Love Island property.
On the Costa Blanca, a British youngster perished in a swimming pool accident last month.
On May 25, Freddie Joseph Briggs drowned in the swimming pool at his parents’ house in the village of Aigues, close to Benidorm, prompting the local government to impose a three-day mourning period.
Tributes were paid to the 19-month-old boy at his funeral service at a church in Belfast where he was christened before he was buried at a nearby cemetery.
Father Thomas McGlynn told mourners at the service the youngster brought happiness to those around him and enjoyed his short life ‘to the very full.’
The child’s dad Marc Briggs, known to pals as Briggsy and thought to be from Mansfield, Notts, and Belfast-born mum Jane Mohan had moved to the Costa Blanca shortly before the tragedy.
On May 9, a British man drowned in a nearby river which had claimed the lives of three other people in the past month as he tried to save his dog.
Former Royal Navy sailor Paul Lebihan, originally from Gateshead, died after getting into difficulties in the river at a beauty spot a short drive from the Costa Blanca resort of Benidorm.
Friends and loved ones later paid tribute to the 24-year-old keen amateur boxer and set up a GoFundMe appeal which has already raised around half its POUNDS 15,000 goal to help his family bring Paul’s body home and assist with funeral costs.
In the early hours of June 7, a British holidaymaker died after falling onto rocks in Sitges south of Barcelona.
The 23-year-old man died instantly after losing his balance in an accident which police said at the time happened when he fell from a replica cannon in front of a church by the sea.