After the drowning of a ten-year-old child on Friday in a pond in Château-la-Vallière (Indre-et-Loire), an investigation was opened by the Tours public prosecutor's office to determine the circumstances of the tragedy, has t - we learned Monday from the prosecution.
The accident took place at 3:45 p.m. on Friday, said Tours public prosecutor Grégoire Dulin.
The child under the "supervision of his parents"
The child was under the "supervision of his parents" and was bathing in a "supervised bathing area" at the time of the tragedy, he said.
It remained submerged for several minutes before being located.
The child was rescued by firefighters who brought him to the surface and resuscitated before taking him to the pediatric hospital in Tours, said the prosecutor.
He passed away on Sunday.
Some 700 accidental drownings, including 168 fatal, occurred in France between June and early August, according to Public Health France, a figure down (-22%) compared to the previous survey in 2018, and which can be explained by a weather not conducive to swimming this summer.
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