The drama unfolded this Wednesday, October 30 in the morning. A 6-year-old girl was found unconscious in the Bocage swimming pool in Vitré, in Ille-et-Vilaine. After a cardiac massage, she was airlifted to the Pontchaillou hospital center in Rennes.
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She was part of a group of around forty children from the Argentré-du-Plessis recreational center. While out at the Bocage swimming pool in Vitré, the 6-year-old girl was found unconscious in a pool this Wednesday, October 30 in the morning, the gendarmerie confirms. The emergency services dispatched to the scene gave her a cardiac massage which allowed her to be resuscitated. The little girl was urgently airlifted to the Pontchaillou hospital center in Rennes.
The events took place in the morning and the swimming pool was evacuated to allow the intervention of the emergency services. The other children all left by bus towards the daycare center.
A gendarmerie investigation is underway to determine the exact causes of the accident.
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