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04/05/2007
Boy drowns at Wigan beauty spot
A ten-year-old boy has lost his life following an incident at a pond in Wigan.
It is reported that the boy was trying to help a girl who had got into difficulties while swimming at the local beauty spot.
Police were called to the John Pit Pond in Standish Lower Ground at around 3:50pm on Thursday. A police spokesperson said that members of the public had rescued the boy and he had received CPR at the scene.
The boy was taken by Royal Preston Hospital by the North West Air Ambulance and then transferred to Pendlebury Children's Hospital, but he later died.
(SP/JM)
It is reported that the boy was trying to help a girl who had got into difficulties while swimming at the local beauty spot.
Police were called to the John Pit Pond in Standish Lower Ground at around 3:50pm on Thursday. A police spokesperson said that members of the public had rescued the boy and he had received CPR at the scene.
The boy was taken by Royal Preston Hospital by the North West Air Ambulance and then transferred to Pendlebury Children's Hospital, but he later died.
(SP/JM)
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