2 girls drown in Pangasinan on Black Saturday

Dagupan City, Pangasinan (Wikipedia maps)

DAGUPAN CITY — Two girls drowned on Black Saturday in separate incidents in Pangasinan province, police said Easter Sunday.

In Laoac town, a 4-year-old girl from Baguio City did not make it to a hospital alive after she was retrieved at about 9:40 a.m. from a swimming pool of a resort in Barangay Turko, where her family spent their holiday.

In Sual town, a 10-year-old girl from the town was already dead when she reached the Labrador Community Hospital in neighboring Labrador town, where rescuers took her after she was found unconscious at the bottom of a pool below the Fila Falls in Barangay Camagsingalan at about 2 p.m.

The girl was with her family for a picnic when the incident took place.