A BRITISH girl is fighting for her life in hospital after she was found face-down in a swimming pool in the Algarve.
The four-year-old was on holiday in the popular tourist resort of Lagos, Portugal when she was found unconscious in a pool.
Paramedics raced to the scene and found her in a "serious condition".
The youngster, who is believed to be British, was taken to Portimao Hospital after the incident yesterday.
The pool where the girl was found was at a privately-owned house.
Her current condition is not known at this time.
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Local cops were not immediately available for comment early this morning.
It comes a week after a seven-year-old girl died in hospital two days after being pulled from a hotel pool in Majorca.
The young girl was rushed to an intensive care unit “in a critical condition” after she was rescued from a near-drowning.
Sources at Son Espases Hospital in the island capital Palma later confirmed she had died.
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A routine police investigation at the four-star HYB Eurocalas Hotel in the east coast resort of Calas de Mallorca is ongoing.
And on June 5, six-year-old Corey Aughey from north Belfast died in hospital after falling into a hotel swimming pool.
He was staying with his family in the Majorcan resort of Sa Coma near the Love Island villa.
Last month, a British toddler also drowned in a swimming pool accident on the Costa Blanca.
Freddie Joseph Briggs died in the pool at his parents’ home in the village of Aigues near Benidorm on May 25.
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Tributes were paid to the 19-month-old boy at his funeral service at a church in Belfast where he was christened before he was buried at a nearby cemetery.
His dad Thomas McGlynn told mourners the youngster brought happiness to those around him and enjoyed his short life “to the very full".
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