The parents of a toddler who drowned in a Lanzarote swimming pool were seen desperately trying to find her.
The girl, aged 4, vanished before being present in the principal pool at HL Playa Blanca resort in Lanzarote on Saturday.
It was the most recent in a spate of kid drownings across Spain, which has sparked a warning for fogeys to supervise their children when near water.
Holidaymakers also questioned why the lifeguard wasn’t at their post when the girl went missing, with guests saying they were also recurrently assigned to towel duty on the 164-room resort.
Jake Rhodes, staying on the 4-star resort, told Metro: ‘It was all such a shock.
‘I don’t know what the lifeguard was doing on the time but sometimes he wasn’t at his post.
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‘It was by the principal pool. But I don’t know where the parents were. I believe she ran off they usually were trying to search out her.
‘I saw them doing CPR and doing the whole lot, trying to avoid wasting the poor girl.’
Her death just isn’t being treated as suspicious. No other details concerning the victim or her family have been released.
The girl passed away despite attempts to revive her on the scene by other guests and a site nurse.
Ambulances and police were called, together with an emergency services helicopter, at around 1.30pm to the resort in Playa Blanca.
A spokesman at a regional government emergency response coordination centre said: ‘The Canary Islands Government’s Emergency and Security Coordination Centre received an alert reporting that a young girl showing signs of drowning had been pulled from a hotel swimming pool and required medical assistance.
‘The 112 service immediately mobilised the needed emergency resources.
‘A coordinating nurse, present within the operations room, confirmed during her interview with the lifeguard that the girl had gone into cardiac arrest and gave instructions to start resuscitation manoeuvres.’
One other British four-year-old also drowned after falling right into a pool at a vacation home near the Costa del Sol taking the full to 6 in 72 hours across Spain.
Sebastián Quintana, an authority in drowning prevention, said that the ‘tragic locations’ of the six deaths were Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Andalusia and the Canary Islands.
He warned: ‘The shortage of attention, supervision, and even absence at the showering area by the adults in charge is the principal reason behind these human tragedies.
‘A toddler won’t scream for help. Drowning is a really quick and silent event.’
In nine out of ten cases, the parents were absent while their child drowned, said Quintana.
Hoteles Lopez, who run the resort, has been approached for comment.
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