child is being treated in intensive care in hospital on the Costa del Sol after being found floating in the deep end of the pool.

The parents of the youngster, who has not been identified, had taken their eyes off their son for a moment to tend to their younger child.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Related Articles<br /> <br /> Where will your budget take you on holiday this summer?The family were staying in a self catering apartment within a converted 17th century convent near the village of Olias, a 15 minute drive from Malaga.<br /> The child was found by the British owner of the Lagar Padre Aviles holiday complex and treated at the scene by a fellow guest who happened to be a doctor."There were lots of people on the terrace and around the pool and it appears the accident happened as the boy's parents took their eyes off him for a split second to go to their apartment," recounted the owner David Parish."Everyone started searching for him when they realised he was missing.""My wife Claire spotted him in the deep end of one of the pools and dived him in to pull him out."A British doctor friend of ours who was staying at the other apartment with his nurse wife gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and got his vital signs up and running while the police and paramedics were called."He's now in hospital. He's unconscious and under sedation and breathing with the aid of a machine.<br /> "His parents are by his bedside and his grandparents are flying out to be with them."We're looking after their younger child and just praying everything turns out okay."A spokesman for the Materno Infantil Hospital in Malaga, where the boy is being treated, said: "His condition is serious."

child is being treated in intensive care in hospital on the Costa del Sol after being found floating in the deep end of the pool.

The parents of the youngster, who has not been identified, had taken their eyes off their son for a moment to tend to their younger child. ...

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