British girl, 6, drowns in swimming pool on holiday in Tenerife

Police are reportedly investigating why there was no life guard and where her parents were.

A six-year-old British girl has drowned in a swimming pool while on holiday in Tenerife.

The girl, who has not been named, was pulled from a pool at Granada Park Aparthotel in Los Cristianos.

Police are now reportedly looking into why a life guard clocked off almost an hour before the tragedy and where her parents were at the time.

Emergency services were called at around 6.50pm on May 9 to reports a girl had been rescued from the water by guests and staff at the hotel.

The news site said it’s thought someone gave her mouth to mouth resuscitation immediately, according to Canary Weekly.

Police were the first to arrive at the scene, and reportedly found the girl still ‘conscious but very scared’.

Paramedics, who got there shortly after, diagnosed her with aspiration pneumonia, it was reported.

This happens when liquid is inhaled directly into the respiratory tract or lungs, causing inflammation.

She was taken one hospital, before being transferred to another due to the severity of her injuries, where she sadly died.

A lifeguard who was on duty that afternoon, clocked off at 5pm, 50 minutes before the girl was pulled out of the pool.

Another British tourist was killed in Tenerife on Monday while reportedly trying to run across a motorway.

The 23-year-old died on the TF-1 motorway in the resort town of Adeje.

The road splits the area in two and has hotels and restaurants on both sides, as well as bridges that pedestrians can use to cross.

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