2-year-old girl dead after being pulled from bathtub in south Phoenix

A young child died after being pulled from a bathtub at an apartment complex in south Phoenix Saturday afternoon.

Phoenix fire officials were called to the area of 19th and Southern avenues around 12:15 p.m. for a drowning call.

Phoenix police officers were performing CPR on the 2-year-old girl when firefighters arrived.

She was taken to the hospital in “extremely critical condition” but has since died.

Fire officials add that the girl “had been in a bathtub unattended for an unknown amount of time.”

Police say that no arrests have been made at this time.

This incident remains under investigation.

This story was originally published here.

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