A 10-year-old girl died after reportedly suffering a cardiac arrest at a leisure centre.
Emergency services were called to Putney Leisure Centre in south west London this afternoon.
Police are treating the incident as an “unexplained” death, but the girl is understood to have gone into cardiac arrest.
Officers were called to the leisure centre on Dryburgh Road in south-west London at 2.46pm.
The London Ambulance Service were also called the scene.
After giving emergency first aid, the child was taken to hospital where she sadly died a short while later.
Emergency service vehicles were pictured outside the leisure centre.
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said:
“We were called at 2.38pm today (19 April) to reports of an incident at Putney Leisure Centre.
“We sent a number of resources including an ambulance crew, an advanced paramedic, two medics in fast response cars and an incident response officer.
“We treated a patient at the scene and took them as a priority to hospital.”
Her next of kin are being informed, the Metropolitan Police said.
A forensic scene is in place and enquiries continue.
Putney Leisure Centre has been contacted for a comment.
