MONTREAL – A 15-year-old boy has drowned after climbing a fence around a closed public pool in Montreal Tuesday night.
Police spokesperson Constable Anie Lemieux said that the boy was with a group of friends playing soccer at a park in Lasalle, a borough of Montreal.
At around 10 p.m., the boy scaled the fence of the adjoining Raymond Park pool.
“It’s possible that they were going into the pool to get a ball,” Lemieu confirmed to Global News.
The city-run pool is in Raymond Park, behind LaSalle Community Comprehensive High School.
It was closed, so there were no lifeguards on duty and the lights were off.
After some time had passed, members of the group noticed the teen was at the bottom of the pool.
Residents living near the pool heard the the teen’s friends yelling in panic and rang 911.
As police arrived at the scene, the boy was just being taken out of the water.
The police performed CPR, and when an ambulance arrived, he was transported to hospital.
The teenager was pronounced dead at approximately 11:15 p.m.
His death brings the total number of drowning deaths this year in Quebec to 50.
On this date last year, there were 56 drownings in the province.
– With files from The Gazette
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