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Boy critical but stable after near drowning in Coconut Creek

A 6-year-old boy is in critical but stable condition after being found at the bottom of a community pool in Coconut Creek Saturday afternoon.

The child was attending a friend's birthday party at the 6800 block of NW 39th Ave in the Country Lakes Mobile Home Park. A bystander pulled him from the bottom of the pool and gave him cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.

Police were on the scene at 4 p.m. and Margate Fire Department airlifted the boy, who was not identified, to Broward General Hospital hospital.

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