Possible drowning after child found in Adelaide creek bed

A one-year-old boy has tragically passed away after a drowning on Easter Sunday despite efforts to save him.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA- NewsWire Photos June 25 2022, Generic View of Police line tape at a crime scene. Picture: NCA NewsWire /Brendan Beckett

A one-year-old has died after being found unresponsive in a northern Adelaide creek bed.

Officers and paramedics were called to the scene at Paralowie, about 21km north of Adelaide’s CBD, about 9am Sunday to reports of a possible drowning in the Little Para River.

SA Police have confirmed to NCA Newswire that the toddler has passed away in hospital.

A toddler has been rushed to hospital after being found in a creek bed at Paralowie.

Emergency services responded to reports of a possible drowning just after 9am.

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— 9News Adelaide (@9NewsAdel) April 9, 2023

Police will now prepare a report for the coroner.

According to Seven News, the child’s parents went looking for the child after discovering the child had apparently wandered off from their home.

During their frantic search, the parents crashed their car into a nearby ditch.

Seven News reports the parents of the toddler crashed their car during their frantic search for their child.

A toddler has been rushed to hospital after they were pulled unconscious from a creek at Paralowie. It is believed they wandered off from their home – when the alarm was raised, the frantic parents began searching, crashing their car down an embankment. #7NEWSpic.twitter.com/iTkoZXARpn

— 7NEWS Adelaide (@7NewsAdelaide) April 9, 2023

Paramedics rushed to the scene at Paralowie about 9am to reports of a child drowning in a creek bed.

The child was found unresponsive.

Paramedics worked on the child until they were taken to hospital in a critical condition.

It’s the latest in a string of child drownings in South Australia.

A child, under the age of 10, drowned in the bathtub of a Banksia Park home in early December.

That followed the drowning death of a nine-year-0ld at Waikerie Swimming Centre, about 200km northeast of Adelaide, just days earlier.

Originally published as Possible drowning after child found in Adelaide creek bed