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3-Year-Old Girl Drowns In Hotel Swimming Pool
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Published: August 27, 2008
TAMPA - A 3-year-old girl died Wednesday afternoon after wandering away from her family and falling into a hotel swimming pool, Tampa police said.
The girl and her family were on vacation and staying at the Embassy Suites, 555 N. West Shore Blvd., authorities said. The family is from the Cayman Islands.
Family members, whose names were not released by police, were sitting near the pool when the child wandered away, police said. The toddler was found unresponsive. Authorities do not know how long she was in the water.
A bystander gave the girl CPR until Tampa Fire Rescue paramedics arrived about 5 p.m. The girl was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Investigators have ruled the drowning an accident.
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