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A Baby Girl Has Drowned In A Backyard Pool In Sydney

She was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital.

An eighteen-month old baby girl has been found drowned in a backyard pool in Sydney.

7 News reports that the one-year-old was pulled from the water at Raby in Sydney’s southwest on Sunday afternoon.

Though she was taken to Campbelltown hospital, she had gone into cardiac arrest, and she was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. 

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Police are currently investigating the incident, and preparing a report for the Coroner.

This is the second drowning in a pool in that area in the past couple of months. The last incident occurred when a six-year-old boy was pulled from the water of a backyard pool in Raby in October.

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