FREDERICTON – Police in Fredericton are investigating after a 9-year-old boy collapsed and died while walking to school Monday morning.
A spokeswoman for the city’s police force says officers and paramedics were called to Greenfields Drive Monday around 8 a.m. about a report that a boy had collapsed while walking along the street.
Fredericton police said the boy was taken to hospital, but pronounced dead.
Penny Hutley-Dobson, a crosswalk attendant, saw the boy collapse while she was riding to work on a city bus.
She said a woman on the bus called 911 then got off to help the bus driver attend to the boy.
Hutley-Dobson said the bus driver performed CPR until an ambulance arrived.
Police said the boy lived in an apartment building less than 50 metres down the street from where he collapsed.
It’s not yet known whether he had a pre-existing medical condition.
The police are still investigating.
*with files from Global News’ Shelley Steeves and The Canadian Press
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