Heart-stopping moment drowning boy, 4, is saved by his dad after sinking to bottom of swimming pool

THIS is the heart stopping moment a drowning boy was saved by his dad in a swimming pool – just before he lost consciousness.

The four-year-old was crouching beside the swimming pool in the city of Maa’anshan, eastern China, when he toppled over and fell in.

Other swimmers can be seen walking up and down the poolside as the little boy struggles to keep his head above water.

And he was floating face down in the pool by the time a woman spots him, pokes him to see if he is OK and then shouts to raise the alarm.

The youngster’s dad then runs out of the changing rooms and jumps into the pool to pull his unconscious son onto the poolside.

Lifeguard Sun Mengwei tried to resuscitate the boy whose pulse was very weak and his body cold.

Sun later said: “After three minutes of CPR the boy finally moved his hand and started crying.

“His dad carried him off to hospital immediately.”

Fortunately, doctors pronounced the youngster was out of danger although he was kept in hospital for observation.

The boy’s father later told local media he and his son were taking a shower in the changing room when the youngster ran off without him noticing.

It comes after a swimmer was saved from drowning by a cleaner who spotted him blacking out and sinking to the bottom of an empty pool.

The stricken swimmer was seconds from death at Planet Fitness in Johannesburg, South Africa, when employee Karabo Thosago, 23, saw him.

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