A nine-year-old boy drowned on a cove Wednesday when he was with his mother, uncle and three other children.
Hillsborough County Sheriff, Chad Chronister, said the unidentified child was sitting on an embankment at Bullfrog Creek in Gibsonton, south of Tampa, when adults swam across the cove, leaving the boy on the other side. side.
Investigators say the boy has fallen into a part of the creek where the depth of the water is estimated between 10 and 12 feet.
The boy about 30 minutes
After 30 minutes of his fall, the boy was removed from the water and was taken to the hospital by paramedics, where he was pronounced dead.
