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Toddler drowns in a swimming pool

Drowned whilst swimming PIC: INDIATODAY.COM (NOT ACTUAL SCENE)
Drowned whilst swimming PIC: INDIATODAY.COM (NOT ACTUAL SCENE)

FRANCISTOWN: A two-year-old toddler from Tonota village has drowned in a swimming pool whilst his mother was preparing breakfast.

Tonota Station commander, Superintendent Oteng Ngada, they are investigating a drowning incident that occurred on Saturday morning in Tonota West. He said that the two-year-old boy sneaked out of the house whilst his 38-year-old mother was preparing breakfast.

He indicated that the boy was found by the mother who jumped into the pool and retrieved the lifeless body.

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