Boy drowns in Spanish hotel

A young Belfast family was in mourning last night after the body of their eight-year-old son, Liam, was flown home from Spain…

A young Belfast family was in mourning last night after the body of their eight-year-old son, Liam, was flown home from Spain following another hotel swimming-pool drowning accident.

Mrs Mary and Mr Stephen White, from west Belfast, were being comforted by friends and relatives and a young Dungannon woman, Ms Olivia Pearson, whose five-year-old son, Ryan, was also drowned in a similar incident in Spain in June.

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