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| Boy, three, dies in pond accident | Boy, three, dies in pond accident |
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| A three-year-old boy was pronounced dead in hospital after being found face down in a neighbour's garden pond. | A three-year-old boy was pronounced dead in hospital after being found face down in a neighbour's garden pond. |
| Kent Police, who searched the area after the boy disappeared from a house in Victoria Street in Dover on Saturday morning, found the child. | Kent Police, who searched the area after the boy disappeared from a house in Victoria Street in Dover on Saturday morning, found the child. |
| An officer carried out emergency first aid and the boy was taken to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, where he was pronounced dead. | An officer carried out emergency first aid and the boy was taken to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, where he was pronounced dead. |
| A police spokesman said the boy's death was not being treated as suspicious. | A police spokesman said the boy's death was not being treated as suspicious. |
| The child has not yet been named officially. | The child has not yet been named officially. |
| Edward Sedgwick, who lives in Victoria Street, said the boy's family had frantically searched the neighbourhood after he had gone missing. | |
| "The next thing we knew was that he'd been found but he was hurt," he said. | |
| "A helicopter turned up shortly after that and we heard about an hour later that the child had died." |