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6-Year-Old Surrey Boy Drowns In Bathtub

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 19 Dec, 2016 10:43 AM
  • 6-Year-Old Surrey Boy Drowns In Bathtub
SURREY, B.C. — RCMP in Surrey, B.C., are investigating after a six-year-old boy drowned in a bathtub.
 
Police were called to a home in the Whalley neighbourhood  near 109th Avenue and University Drive just before 5 p.m. Sunday.
 
They say first responders worked for more than an hour to revive the youngster but he could not be saved.
 
Staff Sgt. Murray Hedderson says, in a news release, that police have spoken to the adults in the home to determine what happened.
 
He is not saying how the adults may have been related to the child and names are not being released.
 
The BC Coroners Service was also called.
 
No names are being released at this time.

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