Boy in intensive care after pool fall

12 April 2012

A three-year-old British boy was today fighting for his life after falling into a hotel swimming pool while on holiday with his family in Spain.

The toddler disappeared as he played in the grounds of the Lagar Padre Aviles hotel near Malaga while his parents checked on their other son, aged one.

After a frantic search, the child was discovered lying fully clothed in the deep end of one of the two swimming pools.

Hotel owner Claire Parish, 40, dived in to pull him out and a British doctor who was staying at the hotel, a converted 17th-century convent, gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

The family, believed to be from London, were four days into a week-long Easter break when the accident happened at about 4.30pm yesterday.

The unnamed boy is in the intensive care unit at Materno Infantil Hospital in Malaga, where he is on a life-support machine.

Police are expected to launch a routine investigation.

A spokesman said: "Everything is pointing towards this being an accident."

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