Two-year-old hospitalised after drowning incident

A two-year-old child was hospitalised yesterday, 28 August after a drowning incident at his residence in Roodepoort.

ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene at 2pm to find the boy in the arms of his mother. They found him to be in a serious condition and in urgent need of medical care. Advanced life support interventions were put into place before the child was transported to a provincial hospital.

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The details surrounding the incident and the exact area are not yet known, but medics were told that a family member saw the boy floating in the pool and immediately pulled him to safety.