- Seven-month-old drowned at Chatsworth Park
- It’s a popular camping and stopover spot
Police have launched an investigation after a seven-month-old baby boy drowned in a lake at a popular camping spot near Gympie.
Emergency responders raced to the scene at Chatsworth Park at about 10.30am on Saturday following multiple triple-0 calls about baby found unresponsive in the water.
The baby was rushed to Gympie Hospital, where he has since died.
The baby and his parents were visiting from North Queensland and had camped overnight at the park.
Police investigating the circumstances of the baby’s ‘unexplained’ death have urged anyone who was at the lake at the time to come forward.
A section of the campsite remained cordoned off as a crime scene on Monday.
‘We’re treating it as unexplained, that’s probably the best term I can use at this point in time,’ Wide Bay Detective Inspector Craig Mansfield told reporters.
‘We’re trying to work out the mechanisms of how that occurred.’
A popular campsite remains a crime scene after a baby boy drowned in the lake on Saturday
Chatsworth Park is a popular free camping and stopover spot off the Bruce Highway.
It’s also a common spot for the homeless, police confirmed.
‘We have information that other vehicles were parked up in the rest stop area,’ Insp Mansfield said.
‘They either left just prior or during, we just don’t know until we speak to them.
‘There were a couple of vehicles that left the scene who may or may not have seen or heard anything, but we just need to track them down in case they did.’
More to come.
Police are investigating the ‘unexplained’ tragedy north of Gympie
