Toddler drowns in pool of water in Cottonlands
A two-year-old boy has drowned in a pool of water in Cottonlands in the north of Durban.
Reaction Unit SA's Prem Balram says the child is understood to have been playing with other children on Monday afternoon.
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Balram says community members found him in water which had pooled next to a bridge.
"Paramedics got to the scene, and members of the community had removed the child from a pool of water that formed around a burst pipe. It was a very small pool of water."
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