Girl, seven, dies after being pulled from hotel pool and rushed to intensive care in Majorca

AN IRISH seven-year-old has died in hospital two days after being pulled from her Majorcan hotel pool and revived before being rushed to an intensive care unit. Sources at Son Espases Hospital in the island capital Palma confirmed she had lost her fight for life this afternoon. The seven-year old died in hospital A routine police investigation into Monday’s incident at the four-star HYB Eurocalas Hotel in the east coast resort of Calas de Mallorca is ongoing. The youngster was rushed to hospital “in a critical condition” on Monday afternoon with police clearing a path for her ambulance so she could get there as quickly as possible. The unnamed girl’s parents were last night said to be receiving professional grief counselling to help them cope with their loss. A spokeswoman for a regional government-run emergency coordination centre had said on Tuesday: “We took a call around 3.40pm yesterday/on Monday to say lifeguards had spotted a young girl lying motionless on the bottom of the pool and dived in to rescue her. “They performed CPR on her after pulling her out of the water because she had gone into cardiac arrest. “Paramedics continued to try to revive her after reaching the scene and got her breathing again in the back of the ambulance. “She was taken to Son Espases Hospital.”