A two-year-old boy has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition after he was found floating face-down at a public pool.
Emergency services were called to the Whitlam Leisure Centre in Liverpool in Sydney’s south-west on Sunday afternoon following a boy had been dragged from the children’s pool unresponsive.
Members of the public Ali Ahmadi and Abbas Amiri made the horrifying discovery and leapt into action to save the boy.
‘As soon as we walked out, I seen [sic] a baby on the water floating and I [asked my friend] ‘Is it a toy or a baby?’ he told TNV News.
‘He said ‘a baby’ and [my friend] ran outside to ask the lifeguard for help and I got him out of the water and everyone came around me.
‘I ran outside to ask the lifeguards for help, we took him out and everyone came around us.’
His friend Mr Amiri, a nurse visiting Australia from Sweden performed first aid on the lifeless boy after he was pulled from the water.
A two-year-old has been rushed to hospital after a near drowning at a public pool in Liverpool
The little boy was found floating face down in the children’s pool at Whitlam Leisure Centre
‘He was face down and I brought him up, something yellow come from his mouth and I tried to help him as soon I came out from the water,’ Mr Amiri said.
‘There was nothing, around his face was black at the time… as soon as I came out of the water (with the boy) too many persons rushed forward to help the kid, they pushed me back so they could help him, but I was happy to help him .’
Four NSW Ambulance units attended the scene.
The boy’s distraught mother was seen being comforted by relatives and emergency responders as paramedics stablised the boy’s condition.
Distraught relatives consoled each other as paramedics treated the little boy
Evacuation warnings could be heard blaring in the background ordering patrons to leave the venue.
‘They told everyone to hop out, we all went inside and (staff) told everyone to leave,’ one attendee said.
The toddler was rushed to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in a critical condition.
The Good Samaritans were relieved that they had been able to help the child.
‘I’m just happy he’s safe and he’s alive,’ Mr Ahmadi said.
The toddler was rushed to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in a serious condition
Whitlam Leisure Centre was packed with visitors at the time of the near drowning as temperatures soared to 33C.
The pool was closed shortly afterwards as NSW Police established a crime scene.
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