Girl, 6, Drowns at Hotel Pool in New Jersey

Girl, 6, Drowns at Hotel Pool in New Jersey
Ambulance waits outside a hospital.Stefan Wermuth/Reuters
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A 6-year-old girl drowned at a hotel pool in Wildwood, New Jersey, according to reports on Sunday, July 9.

The incident occurred at the Nantucket Inn and Suites on Ocean Avenue, 6ABC reported. Police said they received several 911 calls related to the drowning on Saturday afternoon, Fox29 reported.

Guests at the hotel had already removed the unresponsive girl from the pool and were performing CPR on her when the police arrived.

She was later taken to Cape Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead hours later.

Nantucket Inn on Ocean Avenue in Wildwood. (Google Street View)
Nantucket Inn on Ocean Avenue in Wildwood. Google Street View