Police investigate drowning of 7-month-old in campsite lake

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Detectives are working to piece together how a 7-month-old drowned at a campsite north of Gympie. The boy's mother found him in a lake on Saturday morning. Despite desperate attempts from members of the public, he couldn't be saved.

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00:00Combing through a family's campsite, police investigate how a seven month old drowned.

00:07We know what's happened, we're actually just investigating further to try and establish why and how this incident occurred.

00:15Emergency services were called to Chatsworth Park north of Gympie about 10.30 Saturday morning after the baby boy was found in the lake.

00:24The mother of the child did retrieve the child from the water, it's been a very traumatic experience for her clearly.

00:29Onlookers called triple zero and attempted CPR, but the baby died in Gympie Hospital.

00:34We're treating this as an unexplained death at this point in time.

00:37Police say the boy's parents had set up camp about 40 metres from the lake on Friday night as they headed home to North Queensland.

00:45Officers have spoken to the mother and father, as well as other visitors at the park.

00:50Chatsworth Park is a well known rest stop and campsite area for highway travellers.

00:55Police want to talk to anyone who is in the area on Saturday morning, even if they were just driving past.

01:01We have part of the picture, we just want to complete that full picture before we decide on where the investigation leads us.

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