Mystery surrounds the presumed drowning of a toddler rushed to hospital after being found unconscious near a creek
- A child was rushed to hospital
- He was found unconscious in a creek
- Family had been worried after he didn’t come home
A child has been taken to hospital in critical condition after being found unconscious in a riverbed in northern Adelaide.
SA Police have confirmed to NCA NeswsWire that officers and paramedics were called to the crime scene in Paralowie, about 13 miles north of Adelaide’s CBD, around 9am on Sunday for reports of a possible drowning in the Little Para River.
According to Seven News, the child’s parents went looking for the child after discovering that the child had apparently strayed from their home.
During their frantic search, the parents crashed their car into a nearby ditch.
What is believed to be the family car is pictured by the creek
The photo shows emergency services transporting the toddler to the hospital
The child was found unconscious.
Paramedics worked on the child until they were taken to hospital in critical condition.
It is the latest in a series of child drownings in South Australia.
A child, under the age of 10, drowned in the bathtub of a home in Banksia Park in early December.
That followed the drowning death of a nine-year-old at the Waikerie Swimming Centre, about 200km north-east of Adelaide, just days earlier.