7-month baby boy drowns in pail of water

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BACOLOD CITY, Philippines — A 7-month-old baby boy who fell into a pail while his parents were asleep was declared dead at the South Bacolod General Hospital at about 8:20 a.m. on Monday, October 21.

The 19-year-old mother of the boy said she, her 22-year-old live-in partner, and the baby were asleep on one bed in their house in Purok Medalla Milagrosa, Barangay Sum-ag, Bacolod City.

She told the police when she woke up at about 7:30 a.m., she found the child in the pail of water beside their bed.

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“The child was floating with his head down,” the mother said.

The unconscious child was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance that had difficulty getting through heavy traffic because of flooding in the area.

The engine of the ambulance broke down in the flood and the child was transferred to a private vehicle to get to the hospital.