Four-year-old girl drowns in pond at Chilliwack leisure centre, police say

RCMP in Chilliwack, B.C., say a four-year-old girl has drowned in a pond at a leisure centre.

Police say they received a report of the drowning at the water park of the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre around 8 p.m. PT Monday night. 

They say emergency responders, including officers, paramedics and firefighters, all responded to the call.

Police say the girl had been pulled out of the water by family members and bystanders had begun CPR when they arrived.

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Upper Fraser Valley RCMP, in a statement, thanked first responders and onlookers who tried to save the girl on Monday. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

They say the child was brought to the hospital, where she died. 

Police offered their “deepest condolences” to the girl’s family in a statement, and thanked the bystanders and first responders who tried to save her life. 

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