A father and grandfather have died after jumping into a hotel pool on the Gold Coast to rescue a toddler who’d fallen in.
The men, aged 38 and 65, lost consciousness after jumping into the rooftop pool at the Top of the Mark Holiday Apartments in Surfers Paradise just before 7pm on Sunday.
They were pulled from the water by family members who performed CPR until emergency services arrived but the pair were tragically unable to be saved.
The men, 38 and 65, were discovered unconscious in the rooftop pool at the Top of the Mark Holiday Apartments in Surfers Paradise just before 7pm on Sunday
A two-year-old child had been playing on the side of the pool when they slipped off a step and fell in.
The child’s mother then jumped in after the child, but she couldn’t swim, prompting the toddler’s father and grandfather to jump in fully clothed after her.
The two men got into trouble in the pool and drowned.
The child was rescued unharmed while the mother was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
It’s understood the family were visiting the Gold Coast from Victoria.
‘It’s an extremely emotional scene,’ Mitchell Ware from Queensland Ambulance Service said.
‘Obviously, anyone could understand that not just to lose one family member but to lose two family members.’
The pool is on top of the apartment block, several stories above the street.
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The pool is on top of the apartment block, several stories above the street