25/10/2007

Toddler In Pond Tragedy

An investigation has been launched after a three-year-old boy died when he fell into a garden pond.

Ethan Read, from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, died in spite of his mother's attempts to revive him before the ambulance arrived.

The incident happened at an address in Coney Weston.

The death is being treated as unexplained.

(KMcA)


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