A British child has been rushed to hospital after being found unconscious at the bottom of a pool at a Spanish holiday resort.
The 12-year-old is said to have been pulled out of the water by relatives before paramedics began CPR at the scene.
Unconfirmed local reports said he had been practicing holding his breath underwater before getting into trouble.
The alarm was raised just before 5pm on Tuesday.
Emergency responders found the boy beside the pool after being called to a house on a residential estate in the holiday resort of Javea near Benidorm on the Costa Blanca.
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Police sources confirmed the youngster was a British 12-year-old, but they were unable to offer any more details.
A spokesman for the Civil Guard said: “We were called to a property in Javea just before 5pm on Tuesday.
“The boy that was rescued came close to drowning and was taken to hospital.”
A well-placed source added: “He had a very weak pulse when the first emergency responders arrived but fortunately the efforts to save him were successful.”
As well as local police and Civil Guard, Red Cross workers, paramedics and staff from a local health centre were mobilised.
Regional government health officials said on Wednesday that he remained in hospital, but it was too early to say how things would evolve.
A routine investigation, led by the Civil Guard under the coordination of a local court, is ongoing.
The body of a man was pulled from the sea just off the coastline of nearby Arenales del Sol beach in Elche on Monday evening.
Local police received reports of a "corpse" floating about 50 metres from the shore.
