A five-year-old British girl pulled unconscious from a swimming pool on a family trip to Spain has died.

The child was admitted to the Maternal and Child University Hospital of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, on Thursday and tragically couldn't be saved. This was the fourth death by drowning in the Canary Islands already in 2025 - the highest figure in at least last ten years.

The girl became 'irreversibly brain dead' after drowning in the pool, it is reported. Medics at the hospital in the capital of Gran Canaria tried to revive her without success, leaving her relatives devastated.

The heartbreaking accident occurred on Thursday morning, when the girl, who has not been named, was with her family in a complex in the municipality of Pájara. She was pulled from the water before the pool's li

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