Two British children reportedly drown in separate holiday pool tragedies

Two British families have been left devastated after separate swimming pool tragedies while on holiday in Europe.

National news outlets reported that a four-year-old girl drowned in the Spanish resort of Marbella on Saturday morning before a five-year-old boy died in a pool at a villa in the Algarve, Portugal, later on the same day.

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Emergency services tried to revive her but the youngster died at the scene.

Emergency services rushed to the scene at a villa at about 4.30pm and he was pulled from the pool but paramedics were unable to save him.

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