Toddlers pulled from swimming pool

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Two toddlers pulled from swimming pool. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled

Two toddlers have been rushed to hospital in a serious condition after a near drowning incident.

Queensland Ambulance Service were called to a home in Woree, Cairns following reports two boys were pulled unresponsive from a swimming pool.

A QAS spokeswoman said paramedics arrived about 3.50pm to treat the two toddlers.

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Queensland Ambulance Services rushed to the Cairns home following reports two toddlers had been pulled unresponsive from a swimming pool. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled

She confirmed CPR hadn’t been carried out on the two children until paramedics arrived.

They were then taken to Cairns Hospital, each in a serious condition.

It comes one day after a four-year-old child died in a suspected drowning in a backyard pool in Adelaide.

Paramedics worked tirelessly at the home to revive the girl beforeshe was taken to hospital, where it is understood she later died.

Police are preparing a report for the coroner.