British girl, four, dies after falling into hotel swimming pool on holiday in Egypt

A BRITISH girl of four has drowned in a hotel pool in Egypt.

Skia Watson is thought to have slipped and banged her head before falling into the water.

Family members lost sight of her momentarily before a lifeguard dived in to pull her out. She was given CPR by the pool but to no avail.

Her family have blamed the resort saying there was only one lifeguard patrolling the huge pool area and that he had no first aid skills.

Skia and her sister Lystasia, 11, were on holiday with cousin Mali Francis, 18, and Mali’s mum Shelley, 43, from Bristol, at Seagull Beach Resort in Hurghada.

Mali said: “We lost sight of Skia for just a moment or two before she fell in but the lifeguard never saw her until it was too late.”

She claimed the guard panicked, running with Skia in his arms before someone else stepped in to give CPR.

But the manager of the four-star hotel on the shores of the Red Sea denied any responsibility.

He said: “It happened because the little girl was not being watched.”

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