A 9-year-old Monroe County boy has died from a drowning incident at a hotel pool in Pocono Township, the Lehigh County coroner\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
The boy from Chestnuthill Township was pronounced dead Tuesday afternoon at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. The cause of death was complications from drowning, and the manner was accidental, said Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio in a news release.<\/p>\n
Buglio said the incident occurred around 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the hotel pool at the Days Inn by Wyndham on Hill Motor Lodge Road in Pocono Township. The boy was rescued from the pool and life-saving measures were initiated by bystanders and emergency responders before he was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The incident is under investigation by the coroner\u2019s office, Pocono Township police and the Monroe County District Attorney\u2019s Office, Buglio said in the release.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe extend our deepest and most heartfelt condolences to the child\u2019s family, friends, and all who knew and loved him,\u201d Buglio said. \u201cThe loss of a child is an unimaginable tragedy that profoundly impacts an entire family and community.\u201d<\/p>\n
The child\u2019s identity was not released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-year-old Monroe County boy has died from a drowning incident at a hotel pool in Pocono Township,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-227958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}