The two-year-old boy, who has not yet been identified, was found unresponsive by his family at the villa – tragically he unable to be saved and was pronounced dead at the scene
A two-year-old British boy has died after getting into trouble while swimming in a pool at a private villa in Ibiza.
The tragic incident happened shortly bfore 10.40am on Wednesday, June 5 at a holiday home on the northern part of the popular Spanish island. The young boy was found in the pool without a pulse, according to local news outlet Diario de Ibiza.
Emergency services rushed to the villa following a report of an unresponsive child just before 11am local time. First to arrive at the holiday home was the basic life support ambulance (BLS). These ambulances are equipped with essential equipment for providing basic life support, such as oxygen, portable devices for respiratory tract care and defibrillators.
As well as the Basic Life Support crew one Advanced Life Support ambulance attended with teams spending an hour trying to save the boy’s life. Sadly despite the best efforts of medical staff the toddler, who has not yet been identified, was unable to be saved and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The boy’s death is one of many recent incidents involving children swimming to make headlines in recent weeks. The death tragically comes just two weeks after a four-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulty while swimming in a hotel pool in Tenerife. The tragic incident took place on Thursday May 22 in Golf del Sur in the south of Tenerife. According to local media the boy had suffered a cardiac arrest due to ingesting a large amount of water while swimming.
The alarm was raised when the young boy was pulled from the pool by the hotel lifeguard and found to be unresponsive. Two advanced life support ambulances and a medical helicopter were dispatched to the hotel. Emergency personnel continued advanced resuscitation attempts upon arrival, but despite their best efforts, the child was pronounced dead at the scene.
In another pool related incident a four-year-old British boy was left desperately trying to escape after his arm was sucked into the cleaning system of a hotel swimming pool in Majorca.
Guests are said to have looked on in horror as the child suddenly became stuck after putting his arm into the pool’s suction hole, which was not covered. The vacuum effect from the hole trapped him up to his elbow, forcing staff at the Hotel Zafiro in Can Picafort, a resort in the north of the island, to call in the emergency services. Paramedics arrived first at the scene but were unable to free the boy, forcing firefighters to drain the pool and then use a pneumatic drill to reach a pipe leading to the hole.
The boy was given a helmet and ear protectors as they drilled down, before they eventually cut it off at the source around 30 minutes later and freed the boy.