Daniel, 10, was 20mins underwater; DROWNING.Byline: VICTORIA McMAHON THIS is the little boy whose summer swim with pals ended in tragedy yesterday. Daniel Andre, 10, died in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital For other places with the same name, see Royal Victoria Hospital (disambiguation). The Royal Victoria Hospital at 687 Pine Avenue West in Montreal, Quebec, Canada was established in 1893, through the financial contributions of two Scottish immigrants, Donald Smith and George for Sick Children hours after firefighters pulled his body from the River Bann in the Co Down village of Hilltown. He had got into difficulties on Wednesday at around 5pm and may have been underwater for around 20 minutes before the alarm was raised. Firefighters gave him the kiss of life kiss of life n. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. and a faint pulse was detected. He was taken to Newry's Daisy Hill Hospital Daisy Hill Hospital is a local general hospital located in Newry, which is in County Down not County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is part of the Newry and Mourne HSS Trust which covers an area of 909 square kilometres and represents 28. and then to Belfast. His granny Claire Devlin said: "We want to pay tribute to all the medics, police, firemen, everybody who assisted in trying so very, very hard to save Daniel last evening. "We think Daniel was playing on the stones and just slipped in and got caught up in the sand." CAPTION(S): PLAYING Daniel Andre |
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