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