A three-year-old girl admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit at Hospital Universitari Son Espases in Mallorca has died, two days after being pulled from a swimming pool in Pollença. The incident took place at a rented house where the family was staying, information from information confirmed by the Guardia Civil.
The child’s grandmother, a British national, discovered her granddaughter floating face down in the pool and raised the alarm. Local police and the Guardia Civil responded, along with an ambulance team from Ib-Salut. Emergency personnel performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation before transferring the child to hospital in critical condition.
The girl died in the hospital’s pediatric ICU despite intensive medical efforts. The Guardia Civil is investigating how the child accessed the pool and the sequence of events leading up to the drowning.
Regional figures show the continuing risks water poses to children. In Málaga province, 20 people died by drowning between 1 June and 30 September 2026, including three minors, according to figures attributed to the Real Federación Española de Salvamento y Socorrismo and the Junta de Andalucía, as reported by EL ESPAÑOL de Málaga. Four of the deaths occurred in swimming pools; the other 16 were recorded at the sea or in other aquatic environments. The figures relate to Málaga, not Mallorca, and do not describe the circumstances of the Pollença case.
During the same period, the Málaga report recorded two separate swimming-pool deaths involving three-year-old children, in Periana and Cártama, six days apart. The cases reinforce the importance of close adult supervision and effective barriers around pools, particularly where young children are staying in private holiday accommodation.
