Africa-Press – Mauritius. A four-year-old British boy has drowned in a hotel swimming pool while on a family holiday in Mauritius.
Ozair Ali was taken to hospital from the Lux Hotel in Belle Mare after the incident by emergency services, report Scottish Daily Express.
The family were in the Flacq region – a district situated in the east of the island – when the incident happened.
Despite attempts by doctors to save the four-year-old, they were unable to revive him following the incident. The child passed away on Tuesday, June 28 at the Dr Bruno Cheong Hospital.
The Mauritius Police Force said in a statement: “He was swimming in the hotel’s pool in company of his family members, when at about [2pm] his father noticed that he was having difficulty breathing.
He was immediately removed to a safe place. “All the emergency agencies attended within good [time]. The cause of death was, after an autopsy, certified to be ‘asphyxia, due to drowning’.”
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