Child in hospital after 'near drowning' in western Manitoba Thursday

A three-year-old girlis in a Winnipeg hospital following a near drowningin western Manitoba Thursday afternoon.

The girl was found unconscious in the pool at about 5:30 p.m.at the Elkhorn Resort near Wasagaming, Man., at the edge of Riding Mountain National Park, RCMP said.

The preschooler was conscious and breathing after CPR was initiated at the scene by a nurse and possiblyup to two other people, police said.

STARS Air Ambulance spokesperson Cam Heke said they were dispatched around the same timeto the hospital in Minnedosa, Man.

STARS landed in the western Manitoba town at about 6:30 p.m. and transported the child to the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg, Heke said.

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A front desk representative at the Elkhorn Resort confirmed a near drowning did occur at the resort Thursday but couldn't provide any more information.

The incident comes the same week two children, an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, drowned at Grand Beach.

Wasagaming is about 220 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, on the southern edge of Riding Mountain National Park.