Watch above: It’s been a deadly week in Quebec waters. Four drownings have taken place in three days. Global’s Ines de La Cuetara has the details.
PREVOST, Que. – A three-year-old girl has died after having been found unconscious in the Riviere-du-Nord in the Laurentians.
The toddler wandered away from her family and was later found motionless in the water, shortly after 12 p.m. on Saturday.
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Efforts to revive the girl on the scene failed.
She was transported to hospital in St-Jerome in critical condition and was later pronounced dead.
This is the second drowning death of a toddler in Quebec in as many days.
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