British child in serious condition after near-drowning incident at hotel in Caleta de Fuste
A young child remains in a serious condition after a drowning incident at a hotel in Caleta de Fuste, Fuerteventura, in an incident that led to an urgent and prolonged emergency response.
The incident happened yesterday afternoon (Wednesday), at around 6.30 pm in the swimming pool of a hotel in the Caleta de Fuste area, in the municipality of Antigua. The child is of British nationality and is on holiday with his parents and two siblings.
Emergency services were quickly dispatched to the hotel, where medical staff found the child in cardiorespiratory arrest. Firefighters also attended and joined paramedics in intensive resuscitation efforts, which reportedly continued for around an hour at the poolside.
Once stabilised, the child was transferred urgently by ambulance to a hospital on the island, where he remains in a serious condition. At this stage, no further official information has been released about his current prognosis or the exact circumstances that led to the incident.
This latest case is not an isolated incident. In 2025, there have already been several serious or near-fatal drownings at hotel and resort pools across the Canary Islands. In August, a five-year-old girl was pulled from a pool in a Fuerteventura hotel and revived after showing clear signs of drowning before being airlifted for specialist care.
That same summer, a teenager in Tenerife was found unresponsive in a hotel pool and rushed to hospital in critical condition following another near-drowning incident.
And in a separate case in Tenerife earlier in the year, a four-year-old child died after being pulled from a hotel swimming pool despite resuscitation attempts.
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