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Child drowns in Bloubosrand pool

Johannesburg - The weekend ended in tragedy for a family in Bloubosrand , Randburg when a 7-year-old boy drowned in a pool on Sunday night.

ER24 paramedics said a local emergency service provider had started cardiopulmonary resuscitation by the time they arrived on the scene at about 18:20.

Paramedics put him on advanced life support and took him to a hospital, but he was later declared dead.

Further details were not immediately available.

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