A two-year-old girl drowns in a pool in Baena (Córdoba) during a family party

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While waiting for the autopsy, everything points to an accident

A two-year-old girl has drowned this Monday in a pool of Baena (Córdoba), as reported by the Emergency Coordination Center of the Government of Andalusia. The first hypotheses of the research point to a accident.

The event took place around 4:50 p.m., when a call to 112 requested help for a minor who had just been taken out of a pool with drowning symptoms in a local country house. Immediately, the coordinating room notified the Health Emergency Center 061 and the Civil Guard.

Apparently, the girl was with her grandparents celebrating a family party when the events happened. The parents are working abroad, according to sources from the Baena Local Police.

The minor was taken by relatives to a health center, where she ended up dying after undergoing surgery. multiple resuscitation attempts. A 061 helicopter was even activated to transport him to the Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba, but the health teams could do nothing to save his life. After the events, a 57 year old man He also had to receive medical assistance without the need for hospital transfer.

According to sources close to the case, Civil Guard agents have opened the corresponding investigation proceedings and are awaiting the results of the investigation. autopsy.

Spain adds 137 drowned until May

Andalusia It is the second autonomous community with the most drowning deaths in the first five months of 2024, with 22 cases. First of all there is Galiciawith 29 deaths, and Canary Islands, with 16, is the third most affected region. Together, the three communities account for 67 of the 137 deaths registered in Spain between January and May 2024, 49% of the total.

Already last June 9, a 10 year old boy was rescued with symptoms of drowning from a swimming pool in a Manilva hotel (Malaga). The minor was admitted with a reserved prognosis to the Pediatric ICU of the Maternal and Child Hospital of Malaga.

Fortunately, a doctor who was at the hotel pool performed resuscitation maneuvers and he was transferred by helicopter to the hospital, where days later it was reported that he was progressing favorably.