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Boy, 4, drowns in residential pool southwest of Montreal

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A four-year-old boy drowned Thursday night in a residential pool southwest of Montreal.

Emergency services were alerted at around 8:30 p.m. about a child in cardiac arrest who had been found in a pool in Beauharnois, Que.

Local police say the child was declared dead at a nearby hospital.

Police say they are still trying to determine how the boy ended up in the pool.

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On Facebook, officials with the town of Beauharnois said they were at a loss for words to describe their sadness.

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They said the town offers its sincere thoughts to the boy, his family and neighbours.

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