INFO THE DISPATCH. Haute-Garonne: a grandmother and her 8-month-old grandson drown in a swimming pool
A grandmother and her 8-month-old grandson died by drowning on Friday evening July 15 in Préserville, south-east of Toulouse. A terrible accident.
It is a terrible tragedy. A 75-year-old grandmother and her 8-month-old grandson drowned on the evening of Friday July 15 in Préserville, south-east of Toulouse.
The bodies were discovered by the infant’s mother. A neighbor tried to revive the victims while waiting for help to arrive. Despite her efforts and those of the firefighters and the Smur, the septuagenarian and the baby died.
According to the various testimonies collected on the spot, the grandmother kept her grandson for the evening. Everything was going perfectly until the tragedy.
This Saturday morning, the circumstances are unclear. It could be that the baby fell, through a tarp, into the pool before the septuagenarian jumped into the water to save him. But she never came out of the pool.
An accident
The gendarmes of the research brigade of the company of Toulouse Saint-Michel and those of the community of brigades of Balma intervened part of the night to carry out the investigation and make the first observations. This Saturday morning, the accidental track does not suffer from any dispute.
As a security measure, the prosecutor still requested an autopsy of the bodies. An examination that will confirm the causes of this double drowning. The investigations are entrusted to the gendarmes of Balma.