A 4-year-old boy lost his life this morning in a small, irrigation pond in Mijas.

The family had gone out in search of the boy when they realised that he had wandered off only to find his body in a nearby irrigation pond.

He was found shortly before 09.15h, which was the time that the emergency coordination centre (112) received a call for an ambulance.

The house is within the Urbanización La Alquería, where the Panamanian boy was staying with his mother and his Italian step father. Also in the house at the time was the man’s mother and sister.

According to police sources, the last time that the family saw the boy alive was around five this morning, when the mother got the child up to go to the bathroom, after which he taken back to bed. When the family got up, he was nowhere to be seen, so they set out in search of him.

They had already recovered the child’s body from the water by the time that they phoned 112 but they were unable to revive him. When the ambulance arrived the paramedics attemped CPR but it was already too late.

(News: Mijas, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)

Keywords: Irrigation Pond, Young Child, Drowned

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