Goa: Six-year-old boy from Mumbai drowns in hotel swimming pool at Candolim

PANAJI: A six-year-old boy from Mumbai who had come with his parents on a holiday to Goa drowned around 11.30am while allegedly playing in the swimming pool at a hotel in Candolim on Tuesday.
The parents immediately took the boy to a private hospital in Candolim for treatment from where he was referred to the Candolim primary health center (PHC).
Calangute PI Dattaguru Sawant said they received a call at around 12.49pm from the medical officer at Candolim PHC that a six-year-old boy had been brought dead.
As per preliminary inquiry conducted into the death of the deceased, no foul play is suspected by the parents, PI Sawant said. The post-mortem conducted at the GMC Bambolim revealed death due to “asphyxia as a result of drowning”, he said.
Calangute police have registered a case of unnatural death and further inquiry is in progress, he said.