A three-year-old boy has died after an apparent drowning in North York, Toronto police have confirmed.
The toddler was rushed to hospital after being pulled from a pool at a building on Dallimore Circle, near Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue East.
Police say the child was in the low-rise building’s pool area playing with approximately six other children, all under the age of 10.
The mother of the deceased child was supervising, but left to visit the washroom, police said.
“At some point while they were playing, the adult left the area and the three-year-old got into the pool without a flotation device,” Sgt. Kirwin Marshall told CP24.
After the child went to the bottom of the pool, another child informed the mother of what was happening, and she pulled him out, Marshall said.
The child had been underwater for approximately three minutes.
Officers called to the scene performed CPR but the boy was pronounced dead after being transported to hospital.
Police say the mother and the children were visiting the building at the time.
An investigation is underway.
With files from CP24’s Cristina Tenaglia
