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Boy, three, found in garden pond Toddler found in garden pond dies
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A three-year-old boy is critically ill in hospital after being found floating in a garden pond in Birmingham. A three-year-old boy has died in hospital after being found floating in a garden pond in Birmingham.
The toddler was discovered at 1730 BST in the garden of a house in Anderton Park Road, Moseley, an hour after he was reported missing to the police. The toddler was found on Saturday evening in the garden of a house in Anderton Park Road, Moseley, an hour after he was reported missing.
Police officers administered CPR to the child at the scene before he was taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital. Police officers administered CPR to the child at the scene before he was taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital, where he died just before midnight.
An investigation has begun but police said they are not treating the incident as suspicious. The boy was visiting relatives when he went missing, neighbours said.
'Emergency treatment' 'Tragic accident'
A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said: "Police were called to reports of a missing three-year-old boy at approximately 1626 BST from an address in Coppice Road, Moseley. Police were called at 1626 BST after the boy went missing from an address in Coppice Road, Moseley.
"The boy was later found in a pond in a residential garden in the area and has been taken to hospital." The garden of the detached home on Coppice Road backs on to the garden in Anderton Park Road, where the boy was found.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the boy was being treated by police when paramedics arrived. The owners of the property on Coppice Road did not want to comment.
She added: "Ambulance crews continued CPR on scene before transferring the child by land ambulance to Birmingham Children's Hospital. A 67-year-old neighbour said he understood the boy had been playing with his cousins when he disappeared.
"Emergency treatment continued in the ambulance throughout the journey." "The children were playing when he apparently got lost.
"He does not live on this street - he was visiting the house with his parents. He must have got through the gardens."
A police spokesman said: "West Midlands Police sends its sincere condolences to his family.
"It was a tragic accident."